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Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter, telling the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German passenger ship. . The large cast of characters includes Germans, Mexicans, Americans, Spaniards, a group of Cuban medical students, a Swiss family, and a Sw
Brant first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Neo-Latin poetry but, realising that this gave him only a limited audience, he began translating his own work and the Latin poems of others into German, publishing them through the press of his friend Johann Bergmann von Olpe [], from which appeared his best known German work, the satirical Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools, 1494), the ...
The book's publication led to public debate in Germany, and divided reactions from Jewish groups, with some supporting, and others opposing, the decision to publish. [29] German officials had previously said they would limit public access to the text amid fears that its re-publication could stir neo-Nazi sentiment. [ 50 ]
S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. Abrams.The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story.It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author), hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret, plus loose ...
The debate still continues about whether Ship of Fools is itself a humanist work or just a remnant of medieval sensibilities. [6] The book was translated into Latin by Jakob Locher in 1497, [7] [1] into French by Pierre Rivière in 1497 and by Jean Drouyn [d] in 1498, into English by Alexander Barclay and by Henry Watson [d] in 1509.
The Tide Child trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by R. J. Barker.It comprises The Bone Ships (2019), Call of the Bone Ships (2020), and The Bone Ship's Wake (2021). The first book in the trilogy won the 2020 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Germany entered the field with the first German Antarctic Expedition, 1901–03, led by Erich von Drygalski in the ship Gauss. Drygalski discovered land south of the Kerguelen Islands, but his ship became trapped in the ice at 66°7'S 89°38'E, while still 85 km (46 nautical miles (nmi) from the land.
The Ship of Souls was a 1925 western novel by Emerson Hough, published after his death. It included 16 illustrations by WHD Koerner . [ 1 ] It was made into a 1925 silent 3-D film of the same name, The Ship of Souls .