"Penguin Island". One day, a frisky saint mistakenly baptized penguins living on a secluded island. There was nothing to do, I had to turn them into people so as not to discredit the holy sacrament. Thus begins the witty novel "Penguin Island", in which the author's contemporaries saw a caustic parody of the history of France — from the Merovingians and the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus affair, "consumer society", mass culture, terrorism and even the First World War!.. — Anatole France is one of the most prominent French writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the author of the novels "The Gods Thirst", "Thais" and "Rise of the Angels", winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.— Classics of French literature.— An edition in the "Exclusive Classics" series — in a convenient pocket format and recognizable design.