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Penguin Island

Name: Penguin Island
Author: Anatole France

Anatole France

Read by Michael Sirois · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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1-1 Life of Saint Mael (3:30)
1-2 The Apostolical Vocation of Saint Mael (9:43)
1-3 The Temptation of Saint Mael (6:53)
1-4 Saint Mael's Navigation on the Ocean of Ice (6:00)
1-5 The Baptism of the Penguins (6:24)
1-6 An Assembly in Paradise (18:36)
1-7 An Assembly in Paradise (Continuation and End) (10:49)
1-8 Metamorphosis of the Penguins (3:44)
2-01 The First Clothes (10:51)
2-02 The First Clothes (Continuation and End) (1:51)
2-03 Setting Bounds to the Fields and the Origin of Property (8:38)
2-04 The First Assembly of the Estates of Penguinia (5:29)
2-05 The Marriage of Krakken and Orberosia (4:37)
2-06 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 1 (5:34)
2-07 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 2 (4:59)
2-08 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 3 (6:07)
2-09 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 4 (5:15)
2-10 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 5 (6:59)
2-11 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 6 (6:19)
2-12 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 7 (6:03)
2-13 The Dragon of Alca, pt. 8 (end) (4:25)
3-1 Brian the Good and Queen Glamorgan (8:16)
3-2 Draco the Great (Translation of the Relics of St. Orberosia) (6:56)
3-3 Queen Crucha (6:38)
3-4 Letters: Johannes Talpa (7:32)
3-5 The Arts: The Primitives of Penguin Painting (11:30)
3-6 Marbodius (26:03)
3-7 Signs in the Moon (3:22)
4-1 Mother Roquin (9:53)
4-2 Trinco (6:37)
4-3 The Journey of Doctor Obnubile (9:19)
5-1 The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse (15:02)
5-2 Prince Crucho (5:52)
5-3 The Cabal (10:04)
5-4 Viscountess Olive (8:39)
5-5 The Prince des Boscenos (11:17)
5-6 The Emiral's Fall (15:09)
5-7 Conclusion (6:59)
6-01 General Greatauk, Duke of Skull (6:57)
6-02 Pyrot (7:26)
6-03 Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx (7:40)
6-04 Columban (6:31)
6-05 The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse (9:16)
6-06 The Seven Hundred Pyrotists (9:20)
6-07 Bidault-Coquille and Maniflore, the Socialists (12:50)
6-08 The Columban Trial (12:05)
6-09 Father Douillard (10:26)
6-10 Mr. Justice Chaussepied (8:46)
6-11 Conclusion (7:43)
7-1 Madame Clarence's Drawing-Room (8:15)
7-2 The Charity of St. Orberosia (8:57)
7-3 Hippolyte Ceres (12:36)
7-4 A Politician's Marriage (8:43)
7-5 The Visire Cabinet (10:45)
7-6 The Sofa of the Favorite (9:14)
7-7 The First Consequences (7:20)
7-8 Further Consequences (13:34)
7-9 The Final Consequences (17:49)
8-1 The Endless History & Section 1 (13:31)
8-2 Section 2 (8:29)
8-3 Section 3 (10:57)
8-4 Section 4 (3:27)