Author: Jonathan RouthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780416171303
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
On their yearly vacation aboard a red raft, the seven nuns discover an island inhabited by shipwrecked circus penguins.
The Nuns Go to Penguin Island
Author: Jonathan RouthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780416171303
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
On their yearly vacation aboard a red raft, the seven nuns discover an island inhabited by shipwrecked circus penguins.
Penguin Island
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Penguin Island, published by Anatole France in 1908, is a comic novel that satirizes the history of France, from its prehistory to the author’s vision of a distant future. After setting out on a storm-tossed voyage of evangelization, the myopic St. Maël finds himself on an island populated by penguins. Mistaking them to be humans, Maël baptizes them—touching off a dispute in Heaven and ushering the Penguin nation into history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Penguin Island
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: 谷月社
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
I. LIFE OF SAINT MAEL Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths. A celestial perfume soon disclosed the virtues of the monk throughout the cloister, and when the blessed Gal, the Abbot of Yvern, departed from this world into the next, young Mael succeeded him in the government of the monastery. He established therein a school, an infirmary, a guest-house, a forge, work-shops of all kinds, and sheds for building ships, and he compelled the monks to till the lands in the neighbourhood. With his own hands he cultivated the garden of the Abbey, he worked in metals, he instructed the novices, and his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields. At the close of the day this servant of God was accustomed to seat himself on the cliff, in the place that is to-day still called St. Mael's chair. At his feet the rocks bristling with green seaweed and tawny wrack seemed like black dragons as they faced the foam of the waves with their monstrous breasts. He watched the sun descending into the ocean like a red Host whose glorious blood gave a purple tone to the clouds and to the summits of the waves. And the holy man saw in this the image of the mystery of the Cross, by which the divine blood has clothed the earth with a royal purple. In the offing a line of dark blue marked the shores of the island of Gad, where St. Bridget, who had been given the veil by St. Malo, ruled over a convent of women. Now Bridget, knowing the merits of the venerable Mael, begged from him some work of his hands as a rich present. Mael cast a hand-bell of bronze for her and, when it was finished, he blessed it and threw it into the sea. And the bell went ringing towards the coast of Gad, where St. Bridget, warned by the sound of the bell upon the waves, received it piously, and carried it in solemn procession with singing of psalms into the chapel of the convent....
Works: Penguin island. The seven wives of Bluebeard
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Nuns Go to Africa
Author: Jonathan RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Recounts the adventures of seven nuns vacationing in Africa as they try to help two vacationing Santa Clauses find their stolen yellow car.
The Works of Anatole France in English: Penguin Island
Author: Anatole FranceLibrary of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressChildren's Book Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Issues for Apr. 1971- include separately paged section: Children's book review: occasional list, no. 1-
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Children's Books of the Year
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description