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Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptised penguins in error. These penguins ? posessed of Divine Grace by dint of baptism ? are remarkably like and unlike men; they rule the fictional land of Penguinia. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
Written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe.

Produktbeschreibung
Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptised penguins in error. These penguins ? posessed of Divine Grace by dint of baptism ? are remarkably like and unlike men; they rule the fictional land of Penguinia. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
Written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe.
Autorenporträt
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) was a French poet, journalist and novelist. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace and a true Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.