Penguin Island
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Book I The Beginnings
- I. Life of saint maël
- II. The apostolical vocation of saint maël
- III. The temptation of st. Maël
- IV. St. Maël's navigation on the ocean of ice
- V. The baptism of the penguins
- VI. An assembly in paradise
- VII. An assembly in paradise (continuation and end)
- VIII. Metamorphosis of the penguins
- Book II. The Ancient Times
- I. The first clothes
- II. The first clothes (continuation and end)
- III. Setting bounds to the fields and the origin of property
- IV. The first assembly of the estates of penguinia
- V. The marriage of kraken and orberosia
- VI. The dragon of alca , ,
- VII. The dragon of alca (continuation)
- VIII. The dragon or alca (continuation)
- IX. The dragon of alca 7a (continuation)
- X. The dragon of alca (continuation)
- XI. The dragon of alca (continuation)
- XII. The dragon of alca (continuation)
- XIII. The dragon of alca (continuation and end)
- Book III. The Middle Ages and The Renaissance
- I. Brian the good and queen glamorgan
- II. Draco the great
- III. Queen crucha
- IV. Letters: johannes talpa
- V. The arts; the primitives of penguin painting
- VI. Marbodius
- VII. Signs in the moon
- Book IV. Modern Times: Trinco
- I. Mother rouquin
- II. Trinco
- iii. The journey of doctor obnubile
- Book V. Modern Times: Chatillon
- I. The reverend fathers agaric and cornemuse
- II. Prince crucho
- III. The cabal
- IV. Viscountess olive
- V. The prince des boscenos
- VI. The emiral's fall
- VII. Conclusion
- Book VI. Modern Times: The Affair of The Eighty Thousand Trusses of Hay
- I. General greatauk, duke of skull
- II. Pyrot
- III. Count de maubec de la dent-dulynx
- IV. Colomban
- V. The reverend fathers agaric and cornemuse
- VI. The seven hundred pyrotists.
- VII. Bldault-coquille and maniflore. T h e socialists
- VIII. The colomban trial
- IX. Father douillard
- X. Mr. Justice chaussepied
- XI. conclusion
- Book VII. Modern Times. Madame cérès
- I. Madame clarence's drawing-room
- II. The charity of st. Orberosia
- III. Hippolyte cérès
- IV. A politician's marriage
- V. The visire cabinet
- VI. The sofa of the favourite
- VII. The first consequences
- VIII. Further consequences
- IX. The final consequences
- X. The zenith of penguin civilization
- Book VIII. Future Times: The Endless History
When a bumbling holy man mistakenly baptizes a colony of penguins, God endows the animals with souls and their formerly peaceful community declines into a maelstrom of violence and sin. This witty allegory lampoons French history from ancient to modern times, taking satirical swipes at socialists, royalists, industrialists, militarists, and even the Dreyfus affair, and concluding with a remarkably prescient view of the future. Indeed, more than a hundred years after its initial publication, the story's insights into politics and society remain enduringly relevant. Poet, novelist, and journalist Anatole France (1844–1924) received the Nobel Prize in 1921 in recognition of his literary achievements. His writings reflect an ironic and skeptical point of view, and many of his works were placed on the Roman Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books. This edition of Penguin Island is enhanced with the original black-and-white images by noted illustrator Frank C. Papé.