swap_horiz The Pea-Pickers Alternatives

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne’s *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman* is a significant 18th-century British picaresque...

18TH Century Classic Comic Experimental

9.5 Brilliant

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding’s *The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling* is a significant 18th-century British picaresque novel. The sto...

18TH Century Classic Comic Rogue

9.4 Excellent

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais’s *Gargantua and Pantagruel* is a significant Renaissance novel employing picaresque elements. The wor...

Classic French Renaissance Comic

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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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole’s *A Confederacy of Dunces* is a celebrated 20th-century American novel exploring the eccentric lives...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

8.9 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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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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Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews is Henry Fielding's 1742 first full-length novel, notable as a comic epic in prose about a footman and Pa...

18TH Century Classic Comic British

8.3 Great

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Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige

Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige is Jippensha Ikku's Japanese comic picaresque, published 1802-1822 and serving as an Edo travel ta...

Travel Classic Comic Japanese

8.3 Great

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The Dog of the South

The Dog of the South is Charles Portis's 1979 comic road novel, following Ray Midge from Arkansas toward Belize in pursu...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Under the Net

Under the Net is Iris Murdoch's 1954 debut novel, a London story of writer Jake Donaghue noted for mixing philosophical...

Classic Comic 20TH Century British

8.1 Great

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Illywhacker

Illywhacker is Peter Carey's 1985 Australian novel, a Booker-shortlisted picaresque narrated by liar and confidence man...

Satire Australian 20TH Century Postmodern

8.1 Great

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Sandro of Chegem

Sandro of Chegem is Abkhaz author Fazil Iskander's Russian-language picaresque cycle, published in the West in 1979-1981...

Classic Satire 20TH Century Episodic

8.1 Great

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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts is Joseph von Eichendorff's 1826 German novella, a Romantic tale of a fiddling miller's...

German Romantic Classic Comic

8.0 Great

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The Year of the Hare

The Year of the Hare is Arto Paasilinna's 1975 Finnish picaresque, following journalist Vatanen as he abandons city life...

Comic Satire 20TH Century Road

7.9 Good

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Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat is John Steinbeck's 1935 novel about Monterey paisanos after World War I, his first clear critical and com...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

7.8 Good

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The Reivers

The Reivers is William Faulkner's 1962 final novel, a lighthearted Yoknapatawpha picaresque that won the 1963 Pulitzer P...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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The Magic Pudding

The Magic Pudding is Norman Lindsay's 1918 Australian children's fantasy, a comic picaresque about a self-renewing puddi...

Classic Comic Australian 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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The Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is G. K. Chesterton's 1914 comic satire, following Humphrey Pump and Patrick Dalroy as they evade England...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

7.1 Good

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople is Willard Manus's 1966 comic novel about Norman Mott, best known for giving its name to the British roc...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

6.2 Fair