This 1908 satire of human nature and culture—including a famous episode inspired by the Dreyfus affair—concerns an island of great auks whose avian inhabitants, mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary, are transformed into human beings by God, who is eager to rectify the embarrassing error.
© 2011 Barnes & Noble (Ebook): 9781411444683
Translators: A.W. Evans
Release date
Ebook: 22 March 2011
This 1908 satire of human nature and culture—including a famous episode inspired by the Dreyfus affair—concerns an island of great auks whose avian inhabitants, mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary, are transformed into human beings by God, who is eager to rectify the embarrassing error.
© 2011 Barnes & Noble (Ebook): 9781411444683
Translators: A.W. Evans
Release date
Ebook: 22 March 2011
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