Penguin Island - Classic Reprint Author:Anatole France PREFACE IN spite of the apparent diversity of the amusements that seem to attract me, my life has but one obiect. It is wholly bent upon the accomplishment of one great scheme. I am writing the history of the Penguins. I labor sedulously at this task without allowing myself to be repelled by its frequent difficulti es although at times these see... more »m insuperable. I have delved into the ground in order to discover the buried renuins of that people. Men's first books were stones, :'Ind I have studied the stones that can be regarded as the primitive annals of the Penguins. On the shore of the ocean I have ransacked a previously untouched tumulus, and in it I found, as usually happens, Hint axes, bronze swords, Roman coins, and a twenty-sou piece bearing the emgy of Louis-Philippe t, King of the French. For historical limes, the chronicle of Johannes Talpa, a monk of th ~ monastery of Beargarden, has bem of great assistanc ~ to m ~ . I steeped myself the more thoroughly in th
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