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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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El Buscón

Francisco de Quevedo’s *El Buscón* offers a biting critique of Spanish society through the story of Pablos, a young man...

Baroque Classic Spanish Satire

8.59 Great

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The Golden Ass

Apuleius’ *The Golden Ass* offers a remarkable glimpse into the ancient world through its picaresque narrative. This lat...

Classic Satire Ancient Roman

8.52 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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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

8.20 Great

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi’s *The Adventures of Pinocchio* is a classic picaresque novel from 1883 Italy. The story follows Pinocchio...

Italian Classic 19TH Century Children

8.11 Great

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The Dialogue of the Dogs

'The Dialogue of the Dogs' is a 1613 novella by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, included in his collection 'Novelas...

Classic Spanish Satire Animals

7.92 Good

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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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Confessions of Felix Krull

Thomas Mann’s *Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man* is a German novel published in 1954. It tells the story of Fe...

German Classic Satire 20TH Century

7.69 Good

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The Eyes of the Overworld

The Eyes of the Overworld is a 1966 fantasy novel by American author Jack Vance, set in his Dying Earth universe. The na...

Fantasy Quest American Satire

7.67 Good

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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress is a 1724 novel by the English author Daniel Defoe. Written as a first-person confession,...

18TH Century Classic Satire British

7.58 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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Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel is a legendary trickster figure from German folklore, famously featured in a 16th-century chapbook att...

German Classic Satire Trickster

7.38 Good

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The Tale of Frol Skobeyev

The Tale of Frol Skobeyev is an anonymous Russian prose tale generally dated to the period around 1680 to 1720. Its cent...

Russian 18TH Century Classic Satire

6.43 Fair

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Aventuras del bachiller Trapaza

Aventuras del bachiller Trapaza is a Spanish picaresque novel by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, published in 1637. Its ce...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

6.05 Fair

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El sutil cordobés Pedro de Urdemalas

El sutil cordobés Pedro de Urdemalas is an unfinished picaresque work by Spanish writer Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadi...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

5.13 Mediocre