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La lozana andaluza, also known as Retrato de la lozana andaluza, is a Spanish-language dialogued novel by Francisco Delicado, published in Venice in 1528. It follows Aldonza, an Andalusian woman, and her companion Rampín in the streets and underworld of early-sixteenth-century Rome, combining picare...

"The Adventures of China Iron" is a 2017 novel by Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara that reimagines the classic 19th-century gaucho epic "Martín Fierro." The story shifts the perspective to the titular protagonist, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, transforming the traditional masculine poem in...

Here's to You, Jesusa! is the English title of Elena Poniatowska's novel Hasta no verte Jesús mío, first published in Mexico in 1969. The book draws on extensive interviews with Josefina Bórquez to construct the fictionalized first-person testimony of Jesusa Palancares, a working-class woman whose l...

Fanny Hill, also published as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is an English novel by John Cleland first published in 1748 and 1749. Written as a fictional memoir, it follows Fanny as she enters adult sexual life and moves through relationships and sex work, using the picaresque form and elaborate er...

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is a 2004 Russian novel by Victor Pelevin. The story is narrated by A Hu-Li, a centuries-old, shape-shifting werefox who works as a prostitute in contemporary Moscow. Blending magical realism with satire, the narrative explores themes of post-Soviet capitalism, oil we...

The Daughter of Celestina is a Spanish picaresque novel written by Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, first published in 1612. The narrative centers on Elena, a cunning and criminal protagonist, making it an early example of female-centered picaresque fiction. Drawing inspiration from Fernando de...

Juliette, also known as The Prosperities of Vice, is a libertine novel by the French writer Marquis de Sade, published in installments between 1797 and 1801. It follows Juliette, the sister of the virtuous Justine, as she pursues wealth, power, and sexual freedom through crime and philosophical deba...

Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue, is a French novel published anonymously in 1791 by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, known as the Marquis de Sade. The story follows a young woman who attempts to preserve her religious and moral principles while encountering exploitation, coercion, and punis...

La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas is a Spanish picaresque novel by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, first published in 1642. It follows Rufina, a female pícara whose deceptions, seductions, disguises, and thefts carry the narrative through urban society, and it continues the story begun in...

La niña de los embustes, also known as Teresa de Manzanares, is a Spanish picaresque novel by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano. It follows Teresa, a female picaro, through a succession of travels, deceptions, and changing social situations, using her resourcefulness to expose the instability of the soci...

La Pícara Justina, also known as The Pícara Justina, is a Spanish picaresque novel first published in 1605. It is attributed to Francisco López de Úbeda and presents the life and experiences of Justina, a resourceful female rogue who narrates her movement through different social environments. The b...

Teresa de Manzanares, also known as La niña de los embustes, is a Spanish picaresque novel by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, published in Barcelona in 1632. Teresa narrates her own life in the first person, describing her childhood in Madrid, later travels through several Spanish cities, marriages, w...

The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith is an anonymous English prose work published in 1662. It presents a criminal biography of Mary Frith, a London figure popularly known as Moll Cutpurse, whose reputation combined theft, cross-dressing, public spectacle, and independence from conventional expectat...