Picaresque literature
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By: Smith, Zadie
The Autograph Man
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom 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
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By: Barth, John
Sot-Weed Factor
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis 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
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 806
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628973943
- Language: English
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Don Quixote
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartHailed 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
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By: Bohumil Hrabal
I Served the King of England
$17.95PaperbackRead moreFirst 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
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Don Quixote
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartEdith 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
- Author: Cervantes, Miguel De
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 940
- Publish Date: October 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0060188707
- Language: English




