Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Audience›GeneralBrowse ByGeneralAudience 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.FactsGeneralSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1GeneralFilter Results40 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (3)Black Comedy (2)Fable (1)Fantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (3)Historical Fiction (3)Maqama (1)Satire (17)Science Fiction (2)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (16)The Picaresque Novel (6)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (2)War Novel (1)AuthorAllAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1)Alexander Pope (1)Alice Randall (1)Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (1)Baltasar Gracián (1)Denis Diderot (1)Evelyn Waugh (2)Francisco de Quevedo (1)Franz Kafka (2)François Rabelais (1)George Grossmith (1)Giovanni Boccaccio (1)Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1)Henry Fielding (1)Ilya Ilf (1)Jaroslav Hašek (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Kennedy Toole (1)Joseph Heller (1)José Rizal (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Lu Xun (1)Luis Vélez de Guevara (1)Mark Twain (1)Mateo Alemán (1)Mikhail Bulgakov (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Petronius (1)Rudolf Erich Raspe (1)Samuel Butler (1)Thomas Carlyle (1)Vishnu Sharma (1)Voltaire (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)Wu Jingzi (1)Yevgeny Petrov (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)800 (1)990 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1532 (1)1554 (1)1599 (1)1626 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1646 (1)1651 (1)1668 (1)1712 (1)1749 (1)1750 (1)1759 (1)1785 (1)1796 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1842 (1)1872 (1)1887 (1)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1900 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1921 (2)1925 (1)1927 (1)1928 (2)1938 (1)1948 (1)1954 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1967 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)Bulgarian (1)Czech (1)English (16)French (2)German (4)Italian (1)Latin (1)Romanian (3)Russian (4)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (2)Spanish (7)Turkish (1)Country of OriginAllAncient Rome (1)Austria (2)China (1)Czechoslovakia (1)England (1)France (4)Germany (4)India (1)Italy (1)Philippines (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (2)Spain (7)The Middle East (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (6)United States (6)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)FormAllThe Novel (24)The Novella (1)The Short Story (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (1)Novel (21)Short (Under 100 Pages) (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllUnited States (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 40A Confederacy of DuncesGeneralBaron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in RussiaGeneralBeing ThereGeneralCandideGeneralCatch-22GeneralCat's CradleGeneralDead SoulsGeneralDiary of a NobodyGeneralEl CriticónGeneralEl diablo cojueloGeneralErewhonGeneralEstebanillo GonzálezGeneralGargantua and PantagruelGeneralGuzman de AlfaracheGeneralJacques the FatalistGeneralLazarillo de TormesGeneralMaqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-HamadhaniGeneralNoli Me TangereGeneralOne Thousand and One NightsGeneralSartor ResartusGeneralSatyriconGeneralScoopGeneralSimplicius SimplicissimusGeneralThe DecameronGeneralThe Good Soldier ŠvejkGeneralThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingGeneralThe Loved OneGeneralThe Man That Corrupted HadleyburgGeneralThe Master and MargaritaGeneralThe MetamorphosisGeneralThe PanchatantraGeneralThe Rape of the LockGeneralThe ScholarsGeneralThe SwindlerGeneralThe Time Regulation InstituteGeneralThe TrialGeneralThe True Story of Ah QGeneralThe Twelve ChairsGeneralThe Wind Done GoneGeneralThree Men in a BoatGeneralSources1. 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.