swap_horiz The Pickwick Papers Alternatives

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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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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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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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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Denis Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist and His Master explores philosophical ideas through the meandering conversations of...

Travel 18TH Century Classic French

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 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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Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe’s *Moll Flanders* chronicles the life of Moll, a woman born in Newgate Prison who navigates poverty and cri...

18TH Century Classic Crime British

8.7 Great

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a French-language frame novel by the Polish writer Jan Potocki, portions of which f...

Travel Polish 18TH Century Classic

8.6 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

8.6 Great

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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

8.5 Great

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Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews is a 1742 novel by English author Henry Fielding, recognized as one of the earliest comic novels in the E...

18TH Century Classic Comic British

8.3 Great

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Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige

Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige is a classic Japanese picaresque novel written by Jippensha Ikku and published serially between 18...

Travel Classic Comic Japanese

8.3 Great

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Under the Net

Under the Net, published in 1954, was the debut novel by Irish-British philosopher and writer Iris Murdoch. Set primaril...

Classic Comic 20TH Century British

8.1 Great

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The Good Companions

The Good Companions is a 1929 novel by English writer J. B. Priestley. Its picaresque story brings together people from...

Travel Theater Comic 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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The King of Schnorrers

The King of Schnorrers is a 1894 picaresque novel by British writer Israel Zangwill. Set in England around the turn of t...

Comic 19TH Century Rogue British

6.9 Fair

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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England is an 1828 picaresque novel by James Justinian Morier. It is a sequel...

Travel 19TH Century Satire British

6.4 Fair

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Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Rub-A-Dub-Dub is Robert Wringham's 2023 Scottish comic picaresque about a railway worker whose self-care experiment begi...

Travel Comic Satire 20TH Century

6.1 Fair

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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

5.7 Mediocre