Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. [1] Picaresque novels typically adopt the form of "an episodic prose narrative" [2] with a realistic ...
Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane [listwaʁ də ʒil blɑ də sɑ̃tijan]) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735.It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably by Tobias Smollett in 1748 as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane.
Tobias Smollett as depicted on the Scott Monument. Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. [1] He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), [2] which influenced later generations of British ...
Kim is a picaresque novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels , the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English ...
The quote came from testimony Lehman gave before a House subcommittee in 1947 — and it was first added to U.S. passports as part of a redesign for passports issued after 2004, a State Department ...
Typical of a picaresque novel, there is a wide range of characters but few central ones. Roderick "Rory" Random. The hero and narrator, son of a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman. Hugh Strap. Hugh Strap, a simple-hearted barber's apprentice and former schoolmate who is Roderick's companion through most of the novel.
Picaresque novels typically adopt the form of "an episodic prose narrative" with a realistic style. There are often some elements of comedy and satire . Although the term "picaresque novel" was coined in 1810, the picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), which was published anonymously during the Spanish Golden ...