Picaresque novels

novel by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek

Ancient Roman novel by Apuleius

type of literature, usually involves a lower-class young protagonist, on his own, often making a journey

The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as ); serious and comic elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with The Golden Ass by Apuleius (also called the Metamorphoses), classical scholars often

1945 novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari

1749 novel by Henry Fielding

Baudolino is a novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.

right|thumb|200px|The 7th Maqāma of Al-Hariri of Basra|Al-Hariri, illustration by [[Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti from the 1237 manuscript (BNF ms. arabe 5847).]]The maqāma (Arabic: مقامة [maˈqaːma], literally "assembly"; plural maqāmāt, مقامات [maqaːˈmaːt]) is an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre of picaresque short stories originating in the tenth century C.E. The maqāmāt are anecdotes told by a fictitious narrator which typically follow the escapades of a roguish protagonist as the two repeatedly encounter each other in their travels. The genre is known for its literary and rhetor

book by Aravind Adiga

1924 novel by Mikheil Javakhishvili

unfinished novel by Jan Potocki

Viking adventure novel by Frans G. Bengtsson (1944)

1975 book by Arto Paasilinna

1802–1822 novel by Jippensha Ikku

1987 novel by Isabel Allende

1918 novel by Norman Lindsay

1816 novel by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

1948 novel by Mika Waltari

Fasana-e-Azad (; , also romanized as Fasana-i-Azad) is an Urdu novel by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar. It was serialized in Avadh Akhbar between 1878 and 1883 before it was published in four large volumes by the Nawal Kishore Press. The story follows a wandering character named Azad and his companion, Khoji, from the streets of late-nineteenth-century Lucknow to the battlefields of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) in Constantinople and Russia. The work's status as a novel has been debated, but it is thought by most scholars to be one of the first novels (or a proto-novel) in Urdu.

1949 novel by Mika Waltari

1981 novel by Arto Paasilinna