swap_horiz Candide, Part II Alternatives

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Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s *Journey to the End of the Night* chronicles the experiences of Bardamu, a former soldier adrif...

French Satire 20TH Century Dark

9.3 Excellent

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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Denis Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist and His Master explores philosophical ideas through the meandering conversations of...

Travel 18TH Century Classic French

9.1 Excellent

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Gil Blas

Gil Blas is a lengthy French novel by Alain-René Lesage, spanning from 1715 to 1735. This picaresque work follows the ad...

18TH Century Classic French Satire

8.9 Great

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is Jan Potocki's French-language frame novel, first issued in 1805 and notable for nes...

Travel Polish 18TH Century Classic

8.6 Great

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Bel-Ami

Bel-Ami is Guy de Maupassant's 1885 French realist novel, tracing Georges Duroy's ascent in Paris journalism through man...

Classic French 19TH Century Satire

8.6 Great

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The Little Golden Calf

The Little Golden Calf is Ilf and Petrov's 1931 Soviet satirical picaresque, reviving con man Ostap Bender after The Twe...

Russian Satire 20TH Century Sequel

8.6 Great

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The Scholars

Wu Jingzi’s *The Scholars* offers a vivid portrayal of late 18th-century China. This picaresque novel follows a group of...

18TH Century Satire Episodic Chinese

8.6 Great

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Zadig

Zadig recounts the life of a wealthy Jewish prince who undergoes a series of trials and tribulations while seeking wisdo...

18TH Century French Satire Philosophical

8.3 Great

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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Roxana is Daniel Defoe's 1724 novel, notable for its first-person account of a woman using disguises, wealth, and sexual...

18TH Century Classic Satire British

8.2 Great

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Death on Credit

Death on Credit is Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 1936 French novel, a prequel to Journey to the End of the Night centered on...

French Satire 20TH Century Dark

8.2 Great

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Humphry Clinker

Humphry Clinker is an 18th-century English novel written by Tobias Smollett. It’s a picaresque tale told through letters...

Travel 18TH Century English Epistolary

8.2 Great

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The Adventures of Roderick Random

Roderick Random is a 1748 picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, partly based on his service as a naval surgeon's mate in...

18TH Century Satire Rogue British

8.1 Great

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The Unfortunate Traveller

The Unfortunate Traveller is Thomas Nashe's 1594 picaresque novel, often treated as Britain's first example and followin...

Travel Satire Rogue English

8.0 Great

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The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Diary of a Chambermaid is Octave Mirbeau's 1900 French novel, using servant Célestine's diary to expose bourgeois hy...

French 19TH Century Satire Servant

8.0 Great

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La vie de Marianne

Pierre de Marivaux’s *La vie de Marianne* is a significant 18th-century French novel presented as an epistolary account....

18TH Century French Female Protagonist Epistolary

8.0 Great

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The White Bull

The White Bull is Voltaire's 1773-1774 French philosophical tale, a satirical fable reworking biblical and classical mot...

Fantasy 18TH Century French Satire

7.2 Good

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The Algerine Captive

The Algerine Captive is Royall Tyler's 1797 American novel, a fictive memoir of Updike Underhill and one of the earliest...

Travel 18TH Century American Satire

7.1 Good

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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England is James Justinian Morier's 1828 sequel, turning its Persian adventur...

Travel 19TH Century Satire British

6.4 Fair

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Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca

Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca is a 1770 prose satire by Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge, an early Americ...

Travel 18TH Century American Comic

5.9 Mediocre

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Genealogía de Gil Blas de Santillana

Genealogía de Gil Blas de Santillana is a 1792 Madrid continuation issued by Bernardo María de Calzada, extending Lesage...

18TH Century Spanish Satire Rogue

4.9 Poor