Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›GenreBrowse ByGenreGenre sorts a literary work by the kind of story it tells. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel of manners" following Elizabeth Bennet's "character development," a genre built around social behavior rather than adventure or the supernatural. This dimension groups works that tell the same broad kind of story.FactsGenreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1GenreFilter Results17 entriesAuthorAllAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1)Alexander Pope (1)Alice Randall (2)Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (1)Baltasar Gracián (1)Charles Dickens (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Denis Diderot (1)Evelyn Waugh (2)Francisco de Quevedo (1)Franz Kafka (2)François Rabelais (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Giovanni Boccaccio (1)Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (2)Henry Fielding (1)Herman Melville (2)Ilya Ilf (3)Jaroslav Hašek (2)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (2)John Kennedy Toole (2)Jonathan Swift (3)Joseph Heller (4)José Rizal (2)Kaavya Viswanathan (2)Kurt Vonnegut (2)Laurence Sterne (1)Lu Xun (1)Luis Vélez de Guevara (1)Mark Twain (2)Mateo Alemán (2)Mikhail Bulgakov (1)Nikolai Gogol (2)Petronius (1)Rudolf Erich Raspe (1)Samuel Butler (3)Thomas Carlyle (1)Vishnu Sharma (2)Voltaire (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Wu Jingzi (1)Yevgeny Petrov (3)Composition YearAll-300 (2)800 (1)990 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1554 (2)1599 (2)1626 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1646 (1)1651 (1)1668 (2)1712 (1)1722 (1)1726 (3)1749 (1)1750 (1)1759 (2)1785 (1)1796 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1836 (1)1842 (2)1844 (1)1848 (1)1857 (2)1872 (3)1884 (1)1887 (2)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1900 (1)1914 (2)1915 (1)1921 (3)1925 (2)1927 (3)1928 (3)1938 (1)1948 (2)1954 (1)1961 (4)1963 (2)1967 (1)1970 (2)1980 (2)2001 (2)2006 (2)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)Bulgarian (1)Czech (2)English (14)French (2)German (5)Italian (1)Latin (1)Romanian (3)Russian (4)Sanskrit (2)Sinitic (2)Spanish (3)Turkish (1)Country of OriginAllAncient Rome (1)Austria (2)China (1)Czechoslovakia (2)England (1)France (2)Germany (6)India (2)Italy (1)Philippines (2)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (2)Soviet Union (3)Spain (3)The Middle East (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (6)United States (11)AudienceAllChildren's (7)General (15)Young Adult (2)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (2)FormAllThe Novel (13)The Novella (1)The Short Story (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (2)Novel (14)Short (Under 100 Pages) (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (2)Defining TraitAllCharacter Focus (1)Form and Technique (3)Mood and Effect (1)Purpose and Message (2)Setting and World (2)Subject Matter (4)Origin YearAll1800 (1)1950 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAbsurdist FictionGenre3 entriesBlack ComedyGenre2 entriesFableGenre1 entryFantasyGenre2 entriesFrame Tale CollectionGenre4 entriesHistorical FictionGenre3 entriesMaqamaGenre1 entryThe NovelGenre20 entriesPhilosophical FictionGenre1 entryThe Picaresque NovelGenre7 entriesSatireGenre20 entriesScience FictionGenre3 entriesShort FictionGenre1 entryTragicomedyGenre1 entryUtopian and Dystopian FictionGenre2 entriesWar NovelGenre1 entryYoung Adult FictionGenre1 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.