Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Audience›Children'sBrowse ByChildren'sAudience groups literary works by who they were written for or who actually reads them. Wikipedia notes that adaptations of Pride and Prejudice have kept "portraying the memorable characters and themes of the novel, reaching mass audiences" for more than a century. This dimension separates works aimed at a general readership from those written for a narrower or more specialized one.FactsChildren'sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1Children'sFilter Results8 entriesGenreAllFantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (3)Science Fiction (1)The Novel (3)The Picaresque Novel (1)AuthorAllCharles Dickens (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)Herman Melville (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Laurence Sterne (1)Mark Twain (1)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Composition YearAll1387 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1759 (1)1836 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1857 (1)1884 (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (8)Country of OriginAllEngland (2)United Kingdom (4)United States (2)FormAllThe Novel (7)The Short Story (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (2)Novel (6)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 8Adventures of Huckleberry FinnChildren'sGulliver's TravelsChildren'sMoll FlandersChildren'sThe Canterbury TalesChildren'sThe Confidence-ManChildren'sThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanChildren'sThe Pickwick PapersChildren'sVanity FairChildren'sSources1. Picaresque Novel (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentenceQuote, Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentenceThe picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), which was published anonymously during the Spanish Golden Age because of its anticlerical content.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.