Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools Samuel J. Best Kipling had been invited to

Kipling had been invited to Italy by the British Ambassador

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Judson Wynne

the scrappy columnist who never forgot how Fanny rescued him from the school bullies

Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools Samuel J. Best Kipling had been invited toContaining pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges in her preface to Ship of Fools, Porter's image of Europe emerges as more complex, more knowledgeable, and more politically nuanced than