Fat picaresque stories
Explore a captivating collection of fat picaresque stories with our curated list of books. Dive into humorous, adventurous tales of roguish antiheroes and their misadventures in these classic and modern picaresque novels.
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic …
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The Arabian Nights
by Muhsin Mahdi
The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki
A literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisher Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment …
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the …