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Penguin Island

by Anatole France

A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.

Themes: Fiction · Satire

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Watch how Maël does everything—builds ships, tills fields, casts bells—before God even asks him to.

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