Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›AuthorBrowse ByAuthorThis dimension links a literary work to the person who wrote it. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel by English author Jane Austen," written when Austen "was aged 20-21" though not published until years later. Browsing by author gathers every work credited to one writer's hand.FactsAuthorSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1AuthorFilter Results45 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (2)Black Comedy (2)Fable (1)Fantasy (2)Frame Tale Collection (3)Historical Fiction (3)Maqama (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (20)Science Fiction (3)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (20)The Picaresque Novel (7)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (2)War Novel (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)990 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1599 (1)1626 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1651 (1)1668 (1)1712 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1749 (1)1750 (1)1759 (2)1785 (1)1796 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1836 (1)1842 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1857 (1)1872 (1)1884 (1)1887 (1)1888 (2)1889 (1)1892 (2)1900 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1921 (2)1925 (1)1927 (2)1928 (3)1938 (1)1948 (1)1954 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1967 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)2006 (1)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)Bulgarian (1)Czech (1)English (23)French (2)German (3)Italian (1)Latin (1)Romanian (4)Russian (5)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (2)Spanish (5)Turkish (1)Country of OriginAllAncient Rome (1)Austria (1)China (1)Czechoslovakia (1)England (3)France (4)Germany (4)India (1)Italy (1)Philippines (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (3)Spain (5)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (11)United States (8)AudienceAllChildren's (8)General (37)Young Adult (1)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)FormAllThe Novel (34)The Novella (1)The Short Story (2)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (3)Novel (29)Short (Under 100 Pages) (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (1)Birth YearAll27 (1)969 (1)1313 (1)1343 (1)1483 (1)1547 (1)1579 (1)1580 (1)1601 (1)1621 (1)1660 (1)1667 (1)1688 (1)1694 (1)1701 (1)1707 (1)1713 (2)1736 (1)1795 (1)1809 (1)1811 (1)1812 (1)1819 (1)1835 (2)1847 (1)1854 (1)1859 (1)1861 (1)1881 (1)1883 (2)1891 (1)1897 (1)1901 (1)1902 (1)1903 (1)1922 (1)1923 (1)1933 (1)1937 (1)1959 (1)Death YearAll66 (1)1007 (1)1375 (1)1400 (1)1553 (1)1614 (1)1644 (1)1645 (1)1658 (1)1676 (1)1731 (1)1744 (1)1745 (1)1754 (2)1768 (1)1778 (1)1784 (1)1794 (1)1852 (1)1863 (1)1870 (1)1881 (1)1891 (1)1896 (1)1902 (1)1910 (1)1912 (1)1919 (1)1923 (1)1924 (1)1927 (1)1936 (1)1937 (1)1940 (1)1942 (1)1962 (1)1966 (1)1969 (1)1991 (1)1999 (1)2007 (1)Form Mostly WrittenAllEssay (8)Novel (30)Play (7)Poem (9)Short Story (3)GenderAllFemale (1)Male (36)Major PrizeAllPulitzer Prize (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAhmet Hamdi TanpınarAuthor1 entryAlexander PopeAuthor1 entryAlice RandallAuthor1 entryBadi' al-Zaman al-HamadhaniAuthor1 entryBaltasar GraciánAuthor1 entryCharles DickensAuthor1 entryDaniel DefoeAuthor1 entryDenis DiderotAuthor1 entryEvelyn WaughAuthor2 entriesFrancisco de QuevedoAuthor1 entryFrançois RabelaisAuthor1 entryFranz KafkaAuthor2 entriesGeoffrey ChaucerAuthor1 entryGeorge GrossmithAuthor1 entryGiovanni BoccaccioAuthor1 entryHans Jakob Christoffel von GrimmelshausenAuthor1 entryHenry FieldingAuthor1 entryHerman MelvilleAuthor1 entryIlya IlfAuthor1 entryJaroslav HašekAuthor1 entryJerome K. JeromeAuthor1 entryJerzy KosińskiAuthor1 entryJohn Kennedy TooleAuthor1 entryJonathan SwiftAuthor1 entryJosé RizalAuthor1 entryJoseph HellerAuthor1 entryKaavya ViswanathanAuthor1 entryKurt VonnegutAuthor1 entryLaurence SterneAuthor1 entryLu XunAuthor1 entryLuis Vélez de GuevaraAuthor1 entryMark TwainAuthor2 entriesMateo AlemánAuthor1 entryMikhail BulgakovAuthor1 entryNikolai GogolAuthor1 entryPetroniusAuthor1 entryRudolf Erich RaspeAuthor1 entrySamuel ButlerAuthor1 entryThomas CarlyleAuthor1 entryVishnu SharmaAuthor1 entryVoltaireAuthor1 entryWeedon GrossmithAuthor1 entryWilliam Makepeace ThackerayAuthor1 entryWu JingziAuthor1 entryYevgeny PetrovAuthor1 entrySources1. 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.