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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.3 Excellent

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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

9.3 Excellent

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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

9.2 Excellent

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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Brás Cubas’s posthumous memoirs offer a uniquely challenging perspective on 19th-century Brazil. Written by Machado de A...

19TH Century Satire Brazilian Unreliable Narrator

9.2 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 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

8.8 Great

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The Dialogue of the Dogs

The Dialogue of the Dogs is a 1613 novella by Miguel de Cervantes in Novelas ejemplares, notable for giving speech to th...

Classic Spanish Satire Animals

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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Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias

Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias is an 1852-1853 Brazilian serial novel by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, satirizing urba...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

8.5 Great

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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

8.4 Great

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The Eyes of the Overworld

The Eyes of the Overworld is Jack Vance's 1966 Dying Earth fix-up novel, a picaresque fantasy centered on the roguish Cu...

Fantasy Quest American Satire

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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El diablo cojuelo

El diablo cojuelo is Luis Vélez de Guevara's 1641 satirical fantasy, in which a freed devil exposes Madrid society by li...

Fantasy Baroque Classic Spanish

8.1 Great

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The Mangy Parrot

The Mangy Parrot is an 1816 Mexican novel by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, widely regarded as the first novel publi...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

8.1 Great

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The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak

The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak is Charles De Coster's 1867 Belgian novel, recasting the trickster as a...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Belgian

8.1 Great

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Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel is the German trickster of a chapbook printed around 1510, notable for exposing social folly through l...

German Classic Satire Trickster

8.0 Great

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The Tale of Frol Skobeyev

The Tale of Frol Skobeyev is an anonymous Russian tale from around 1680-1720, notable as early secular fiction about a s...

Russian 18TH Century Classic Satire

7.0 Good

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Aventuras del bachiller Trapaza

Aventuras del bachiller Trapaza is Castillo Solórzano's 1637 Spanish picaresque, built around a student rogue and comic...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

6.6 Fair

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El sutil cordobés Pedro de Urdemalas

El sutil cordobés Pedro de Urdemalas is Salas Barbadillo's 1620 unfinished picaresque work, built around a famous Spanis...

Classic Spanish Satire Golden Age

5.6 Mediocre