Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Length Band›NovelBrowse ByNovelFactsNovelSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1NovelFilter Results33 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (2)Black Comedy (2)Fantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (2)Historical Fiction (3)Maqama (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (15)Science Fiction (3)The Novel (14)The Picaresque Novel (3)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (2)War Novel (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)AuthorAllAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1)Alice Randall (1)Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (1)Baltasar Gracián (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Evelyn Waugh (2)Franz Kafka (1)François Rabelais (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Giovanni Boccaccio (1)Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1)Herman Melville (1)Jaroslav Hašek (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Kennedy Toole (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Joseph Heller (1)José Rizal (1)Kaavya Viswanathan (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Laurence Sterne (1)Luis Vélez de Guevara (1)Mark Twain (1)Mikhail Bulgakov (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Petronius (1)Samuel Butler (1)Thomas Carlyle (1)Voltaire (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)Wu Jingzi (1)Composition YearAll990 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1651 (1)1668 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1750 (1)1759 (2)1830 (1)1833 (1)1842 (1)1857 (1)1872 (1)1884 (1)1887 (1)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1914 (1)1921 (1)1925 (1)1928 (1)1938 (1)1948 (1)1954 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1967 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)2006 (1)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)Czech (1)English (19)French (1)German (2)Italian (1)Latin (1)Romanian (2)Russian (3)Sinitic (1)Spanish (3)Turkish (1)Country of OriginAllAncient Rome (1)Austria (1)Czechoslovakia (1)England (1)France (3)Germany (3)Italy (1)Philippines (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (1)Spain (3)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (8)United States (8)AudienceAllChildren's (6)General (26)Young Adult (1)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)FormAllThe Novel (25)The Novella (1)The Short Story (2)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 33A Confederacy of DuncesNovelAdventures of Huckleberry FinnNovelBeing ThereNovelCandideNovelCatch-22NovelCat's CradleNovelDead SoulsNovelDiary of a NobodyNovelEl CriticónNovelEl diablo cojueloNovelErewhonNovelGargantua and PantagruelNovelGulliver's TravelsNovelHow Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a LifeNovelMaqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-HamadhaniNovelMoll FlandersNovelNoli Me TangereNovelSartor ResartusNovelSatyriconNovelScoopNovelSimplicius SimplicissimusNovelThe Canterbury TalesNovelThe Confidence-ManNovelThe DecameronNovelThe Good Soldier ŠvejkNovelThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanNovelThe Loved OneNovelThe Master and MargaritaNovelThe ScholarsNovelThe Time Regulation InstituteNovelThe TrialNovelThe Wind Done GoneNovelThree Men in a BoatNovelSources1. 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.