TY  - BOOK
AU  - France,Anatole
TI  - L'Île Des Pingouins
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire
KW  - Political fiction, French
KW  - French fiction -- 20th century
KW  - Penguins -- Fiction
KW  - Civilization, Western -- Fiction
KW  - France -- Civilization -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Island_(novel) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%8Ele_des_Pingouins; Release date is 2005-07-01; Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "L'Île des Pingouins" by Anatole France is a historical novel published in 1908. When a near-sighted saint accidentally baptizes penguins instead of humans, God transforms them into people, creating a new civilization. France chronicles their entire history—from ancient times through the future—as a satirical mirror of French history itself. The narrative includes a pointed allegory of the Dreyfus Affair and skewers religious hypocrisy, political corruption, and social follies. This darkly comic tale presents human civilization as an endless cycle of ambition, destruction, and regression. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8524
ER  -