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Country 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.

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1554 1
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1. Picaresque Novel (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentence
Quote, Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentence
The 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.
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