Picaresque literature

  • The Autograph Man

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an “intelligent … exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the trium[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Smith, Zadie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 037570387X
    • Language: English
  • Sot-Weed Factor

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    This is Barth’s most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is “one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world

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    • Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
    • Author: Barth, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 806
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1628973943
    • Language: English
  • Don Quixote

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    Hailed by Dostoyevsky as “The final and greatest utterance of the human mind,” Don Quixote constitutes a founding work of modern Western literature. Cervantes’ masterpiece has been translated into mor… [more below]

    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions
    • Author: De Cervantes, Miguel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 992
    • Publish Date: March 21 2018
    • ISBN10: 0486821951
    • Language: English
  • I Served the King of England

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    First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is “an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel” (The New York Times), tellin… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Classics #0
    • Author: Hrabal, Bohumil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 31 2007
    • ISBN10: 081121687X
    • Language: English
  • Don Quixote

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    Edith Grossman’s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition

    Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles

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    • Author: Cervantes, Miguel De
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 940
    • Publish Date: October 21 2003
    • ISBN10: 0060188707
    • Language: English
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