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_2iso639-1
050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aFrance, Anatole,
_d1844-1924
245 1 2 _aL'Île Des Pingouins
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Island_(novel) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%8Ele_des_Pingouins
500 _aRelease date is 2005-07-01
508 _aProduced by Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSatire
653 _aPolitical fiction, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
653 _aPenguins -- Fiction
653 _aCivilization, Western -- Fiction
653 _aFrance -- Civilization -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8524
999 _c50506
_d50506