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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of a young boy and an enslaved man navigating the Mississipp...

Classic American 19TH Century Rogue

9.6 Brilliant

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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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The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow’s *The Adventures of Augie March* chronicles a young man's unconventional journey through early 20th-century...

Classic American 20TH Century Rogue

9.1 Excellent

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Lost Illusions

Honoré de Balzac’s *Lost Illusions* (1837) offers a sharply observed portrayal of Parisian society in the 19th century....

French 19TH Century Ambition Social Satire

9.1 Excellent

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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 Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel, serialized in England in 1836-1837 and famous for Mr. Pickwick and...

Travel Classic Comic 19TH Century

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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Flashman

George MacDonald Fraser’s *Flashman* presents a cynical portrait of a British officer during the late 19th century. The...

20TH Century Historical English Anti Hero

8.3 Great

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 serial picaresque, narrated by an Irish fortune-hunter se...

19TH Century Satire Rogue British

8.2 Great

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The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man is Herman Melville's 1857 satirical final novel, set on a Mississippi steamboat bound for New Orleans...

American 19TH Century Satire River

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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Flashman in the Great Game

George MacDonald Fraser’s *Flashman in the Great Game* recounts the exploits of Harry Flashman, a British officer naviga...

India 20TH Century Historical English

8.2 Great

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Trafalgar

Trafalgar is Benito Pérez Galdós's 1873 Spanish historical novel, the first of the Episodios nacionales and a fictional...

Adventure Spanish 19TH Century Satire

8.1 Great

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Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh’s *Vile Bodies* portrays a disillusioned generation navigating post-war society in interwar England. The no...

Satire 20TH Century English Society

8.1 Great

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Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit is an 1844 novel by Charles Dickens notable for its satirical picaresque journey following a selfish y...

19TH Century Satire English America

7.7 Good

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

The Adventures of Harry Richmond is George Meredith's 1870-1871 British romance of a boy's travels, often read as partly...

Adventure 19TH Century Satire British

7.1 Good

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Hajji Baba of Ispahan

Hajji Baba of Ispahan is an 1824 picaresque novel by James Justinian Morier, notable for its vivid and satirical depicti...

19TH Century Satire English Morier

7.1 Good

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Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard is an 1839 historical and picaresque novel by William Harrison Ainsworth, notable for romanticizing the re...

19TH Century Historical English Criminal

6.3 Fair