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Penguin Island

Anatole France

9 h 5 min · 62 chapters · read by Michael Sirois

A short-sighted old missionary mistakes a colony of penguins for people and baptizes them, and heaven, embarrassed, turns them into humans. What follows is their history, a satire of France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. By Anatole France, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.

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9 h 5 min
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7 h 16 min
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6 h 3 min
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Chapters

  1. 1-1 Life of Saint Mael3:30
  2. 1-2 The Apostolical Vocation of Saint Mael9:43
  3. 1-3 The Temptation of Saint Mael6:53
  4. 1-4 Saint Mael's Navigation on the Ocean of Ice6:00
  5. 1-5 The Baptism of the Penguins6:24
  6. 1-6 An Assembly in Paradise18:36
  7. 1-7 An Assembly in Paradise (Continuation and End)10:49
  8. 1-8 Metamorphosis of the Penguins3:44
  9. 2-01 The First Clothes10:51
  10. 2-02 The First Clothes (Continuation and End)1:51
  11. 2-03 Setting Bounds to the Fields and the Origin of Property8:38
  12. 2-04 The First Assembly of the Estates of Penguinia5:29
  13. 2-05 The Marriage of Krakken and Orberosia4:37
  14. 2-06 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 15:34
  15. 2-07 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 24:59
  16. 2-08 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 36:07
  17. 2-09 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 45:15
  18. 2-10 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 56:59
  19. 2-11 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 66:19
  20. 2-12 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 76:03
  21. 2-13 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 8 (end)4:25
  22. 3-1 Brian the Good and Queen Glamorgan8:16
  23. 3-2 Draco the Great (Translation of the Relics of St. Orberosia)6:56
  24. 3-3 Queen Crucha6:38
  25. 3-4 Letters: Johannes Talpa7:32
  26. 3-5 The Arts: The Primitives of Penguin Painting11:30
  27. 3-6 Marbodius26:03
  28. 3-7 Signs in the Moon3:22
  29. 4-1 Mother Roquin9:53
  30. 4-2 Trinco6:37
  31. 4-3 The Journey of Doctor Obnubile9:19
  32. 5-1 The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse15:02
  33. 5-2 Prince Crucho5:52
  34. 5-3 The Cabal10:04
  35. 5-4 Viscountess Olive8:39
  36. 5-5 The Prince des Boscenos11:17
  37. 5-6 The Emiral's Fall15:09
  38. 5-7 Conclusion 6:59
  39. 6-01 General Greatauk, Duke of Skull6:57
  40. 6-02 Pyrot7:26
  41. 6-03 Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx 7:40
  42. 6-04 Columban6:31
  43. 6-05 The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse9:16
  44. 6-06 The Seven Hundred Pyrotists9:20
  45. 6-07 Bidault-Coquille and Maniflore, the Socialists12:50
  46. 6-08 The Columban Trial12:05
  47. 6-09 Father Douillard10:26
  48. 6-10 Mr. Justice Chaussepied8:46
  49. 6-11 Conclusion7:43
  50. 7-1 Madame Clarence's Drawing-Room8:15
  51. 7-2 The Charity of St. Orberosia8:57
  52. 7-3 Hippolyte Ceres12:36
  53. 7-4 A Politician's Marriage8:43
  54. 7-5 The Visire Cabinet10:45
  55. 7-6 The Sofa of the Favorite9:14
  56. 7-7 The First Consequences7:20
  57. 7-8 Further Consequences13:34
  58. 7-9 The Final Consequences 17:49
  59. 8-1 The Endless History & Section 113:31
  60. 8-2 Section 28:29
  61. 8-3 Section 310:57
  62. 8-4 Section 43:27

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