Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Country of Origin›United KingdomBrowse ByUnited KingdomCountry 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.FactsUnited KingdomSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1United KingdomFilter Results10 entriesGenreAllFantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (1)Satire (5)Science Fiction (2)The Novel (4)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)AuthorAllAlexander Pope (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Evelyn Waugh (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Samuel Butler (1)Thomas Carlyle (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Composition YearAll1387 (1)1712 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1872 (1)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1938 (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (10)AudienceAllChildren's (4)General (6)FormAllThe Novel (7)The Short Story (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (1)Novel (7)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 10Diary of a NobodyUnited KingdomErewhonUnited KingdomGulliver's TravelsUnited KingdomMoll FlandersUnited KingdomSartor ResartusUnited KingdomScoopUnited KingdomThe Canterbury TalesUnited KingdomThe Rape of the LockUnited KingdomThree Men in a BoatUnited KingdomVanity FairUnited KingdomSources1. 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.