picaresque
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Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had acquired a vaguely British accent and was, fittingly, the author of The Picaresque Novel, a study of rogues in literature.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not by any means the fact that the Picaresque novel of adventure is the only or the chief form of fiction which prescribes or admits these episodic excursions.
From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Fielding, Henry
Mateo Aleman, the author of the great Picaresque romance of Guzman de Alfarache, was a native of Seville.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
The Picaresque novel in Spain and its counterparts, Till Eulenspiegel or Reinecke Vos in the north, told the adventures of some rascal or vagabond.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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