Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Country of OriginBrowse ByCountry of OriginCountry of origin names the country where a literary work was written and first published. Wikipedia identifies Pride and Prejudice as a novel "by English author Jane Austen," fixing the work to England even as it has since been read the world over. This dimension shows which countries have produced the most enduring works of a given period.FactsCountry of OriginSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1Country of OriginFilter Results18 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (3)Black Comedy (2)Fable (1)Fantasy (2)Frame Tale Collection (4)Historical Fiction (2)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (10)Science Fiction (2)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (9)The Picaresque Novel (5)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (3)War Novel (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)AuthorAllAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1)Alexander Pope (1)Alice Randall (1)Baltasar Gracián (1)Charles Dickens (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Denis Diderot (1)Evelyn Waugh (1)Francisco de Quevedo (1)Franz Kafka (2)François Rabelais (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Giovanni Boccaccio (1)Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1)Henry Fielding (1)Herman Melville (1)Ilya Ilf (1)Jaroslav Hašek (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Kennedy Toole (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Joseph Heller (1)José Rizal (4)Kaavya Viswanathan (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Laurence Sterne (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)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Wu Jingzi (1)Yevgeny Petrov (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)800 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1554 (1)1599 (1)1626 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1646 (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 (4)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1900 (1)1914 (2)1915 (1)1921 (2)1925 (2)1927 (1)1928 (1)1938 (1)1954 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1967 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)2006 (1)Original LanguageAllBulgarian (1)Czech (1)English (5)French (1)German (2)Italian (1)Latin (1)Romanian (2)Russian (3)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (2)Spanish (4)Turkish (1)AudienceAllChildren's (3)General (18)Young Adult (1)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)FormAllThe Novel (12)The Novella (1)The Short Story (2)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (2)Novel (13)Short (Under 100 Pages) (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (1)Admission YearAll1707 (1)Area (sq km)All83,879 (1)127,900 (1)132,932 (1)242,500 (1)302,069 (1)347,681 (1)357,022 (1)505,983 (1)632,702.3 (1)783,562 (1)3,287,263 (1)7,222,000 (1)9,572,900 (1)9,866,632 (1)14,700,000 (1)17,075,400 (1)22,402,200 (1)Dissolution or End YearAll476 (1)1912 (1)1991 (1)1992 (1)Government TypeAllConstitutional Monarchy (2)One-Party (1)Republic (8)Income GroupAllHigh (8)Lower-Middle (1)Upper-Middle (3)Independence or Founding YearAll753 BCE (1)843 (1)1492 (1)1644 (1)1776 (1)1801 (1)1861 (1)1918 (2)1922 (1)1923 (1)1946 (1)1947 (1)1949 (2)1991 (1)LandlockedAllNo (11)Yes (1)PopulationAll9,219,113 (1)15,700,000 (1)49,752,000 (1)50,000,000 (1)56,490,048 (1)58,900,000 (1)69,081,996 (1)69,414,000 (1)83,497,147 (1)86,092,168 (1)114,000,000 (1)142,557,000 (1)293,047,571 (1)340,587,000 (1)383,100,000 (1)469,300,000 (1)1,210,854,977 (1)1,407,698,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 18Ancient RomeCountry of Origin1 entryAustriaCountry of Origin2 entriesChinaCountry of Origin1 entryCzechoslovakiaCountry of Origin1 entryEnglandCountry of Origin3 entriesFranceCountry of Origin4 entriesGermanyCountry of Origin4 entriesIndiaCountry of Origin1 entryItalyCountry of Origin1 entryThe Middle EastCountry of Origin1 entryPhilippinesCountry of Origin1 entryQing dynastyCountry of Origin1 entryRussiaCountry of Origin1 entrySoviet UnionCountry of Origin2 entriesSpainCountry of Origin7 entriesTurkeyCountry of Origin1 entryUnited KingdomCountry of Origin10 entriesUnited StatesCountry of Origin9 entriesSources1. 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.