Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›Original Language›EnglishBrowse ByEnglishOriginal language names the language a literary work was first written in, before any translation. Pride and Prejudice, a novel "by English author Jane Austen," was written and first published in English. This dimension groups works that a visitor could read in their original form using the same language.FactsEnglishSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1EnglishFilter Results25 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (1)Black Comedy (1)Fantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (2)Historical Fiction (2)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (12)Science Fiction (3)The Novel (11)The Picaresque Novel (1)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)War Novel (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)AuthorAllAlexander Pope (1)Alice Randall (1)Charles Dickens (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Evelyn Waugh (2)François Rabelais (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Henry Fielding (1)Herman Melville (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Kennedy Toole (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Joseph Heller (1)Kaavya Viswanathan (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Laurence Sterne (1)Mark Twain (2)Samuel Butler (1)Thomas Carlyle (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Composition YearAll800 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1712 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1749 (1)1759 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1836 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1857 (1)1872 (1)1884 (1)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1900 (1)1938 (1)1948 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)2006 (1)Country of OriginAllEngland (3)France (1)The Middle East (1)United Kingdom (10)United States (9)AudienceAllChildren's (8)General (16)Young Adult (1)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)FormAllThe Novel (19)The Short Story (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (3)Novel (17)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 25A Confederacy of DuncesEnglishAdventures of Huckleberry FinnEnglishBeing ThereEnglishCatch-22EnglishCat's CradleEnglishDiary of a NobodyEnglishErewhonEnglishGargantua and PantagruelEnglishGulliver's TravelsEnglishHow Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a LifeEnglishMoll FlandersEnglishOne Thousand and One NightsEnglishSartor ResartusEnglishScoopEnglishThe Canterbury TalesEnglishThe Confidence-ManEnglishThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingEnglishThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanEnglishThe Loved OneEnglishThe Man That Corrupted HadleyburgEnglishThe Pickwick PapersEnglishThe Rape of the LockEnglishThe Wind Done GoneEnglishThree Men in a BoatEnglishVanity FairEnglishSources1. 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.