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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A dead man tells the story of his own life in Machado de Assis's 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Writin...

19TH Century Satire Brazilian Metafiction

9.52 Brilliant

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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A dead narrator tells his own life story in Machado de Assis's Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, a Brazilian novel that...

19TH Century Satire Brazilian Unreliable Narrator

9.20 Excellent

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The Life of the Buscón

First published in 1626, Francisco de Quevedo's The Life of the Buscón follows Pablos through a series of attempts to es...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

9.18 Excellent

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Lazarillo de Tormes

The Lazarillo de Tormes is a foundational Spanish novella published around 1554. It’s notable as an early example of pic...

Classic Spanish Satire Rogue

8.91 Great

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol’s *Dead Souls* is a 19th-century Russian picaresque novel centered around Pavel Chichikov’s bizarre scheme...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

8.49 Great

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Bel-Ami

Bel-Ami is an 1885 novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant about Georges Duroy, a former soldier who advances through P...

Classic French 19TH Century Satire

7.89 Good

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Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias

"Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias" is a Brazilian novel written by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, originally published as...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

7.79 Good

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The Mangy Parrot

The Mangy Parrot, originally titled El Periquillo Sarniento, is a picaresque novel by Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernán...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

7.47 Good

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The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak

The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak is an 1867 novel by Belgian author Charles De Coster. It relocates the...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Belgian

7.47 Good

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Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón

"Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón" is a classic Spanish picaresque novel written by Vicente Espinel...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

7.42 Good

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Bay Ganyo

Bay Ganyo is a satirical novel written by Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov, first published in 1895. The story follow...

Classic 19TH Century Bulgarian Satire

7.15 Good

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The Papess Joanne

The Papess Joanne is an 1866 Greek novel written by Emmanuel Rhoides that reimagines the medieval legend of Pope Joan. T...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Historical

7.11 Good

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Modern Idyll

Modern Idyll is a Russian satirical work by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, also known in English as Contemporary Idyll. It...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

6.59 Fair

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Ivan Vejeeghen

Ivan Vejeeghen is the English title of Ivan Vyzhigin, a Russian picaresque novel by Thaddeus Bulgarin published in 1829....

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

6.12 Fair

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The Russian Gil Blas

The Russian Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Vasily Narezhny, published in Russian in 1814. Its title and structure ref...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

6.05 Fair

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The Man of Many Sufferings

Operating within the picaresque genre, this novel uses the episodic suffering of its downtrodden protagonist to satirize...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

5.72 Mediocre

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The Exile of 1831

This picaresque novel follows the wandering life of a protagonist displaced by the historical upheavals of 1831, using a...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Greek

5.59 Mediocre

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Der Simplicianische Welt-Kucker

Der Simplicianische Welt-Kucker is Johann Beer's 1677-1679 German picaresque novel, a four-volume Baroque response to Gr...

German Baroque Classic Satire

5.53 Mediocre

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Xouth the Ape

Employing an animal protagonist, this picaresque novel follows the titular ape's episodic adventures, using satirical fa...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Greek

5.44 Mediocre

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Bizarro

Bizarro is an unfinished novella by the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott. The story concerns Francesco Moscato, a Cala...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

5.25 Mediocre