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The longer portion that finishes Aaron's Rod was written by Lawrence in 1921. [1] The title refers to the rod of Aaron in the Old Testament, Moses ' brother who built the Golden Calf in the desert for the worship of the Israelites. The rod, his divine symbol of authority and independence, finds its echo in the flute of Aaron Sisson.
Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛), abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare, is a comic picaresque novel ( kokkeibon) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two travelers on the Tōkaidō, the main road between Kyoto and Edo during the Edo period. The book was ...
The Last Witchfinder. Lazarillo de Tormes. Letty Fox: Her Luck. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Little Big Man (novel) The London Jilt. Lovejoy (novel series) The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
Romanzo picaresco. Con romanzo picaresco (dallo spagnolo pícaro, briccone, furfante, che compare per la prima volta nella Farsa salamantina di Bartolomé Palau come picaro matriculado ), si identifica generalmente una narrazione apparentemente autobiografica, fatta in prima persona e in cui il fittizio protagonista descrive le proprie ...
Pages. 224. The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune ...
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered to include novels composed of documents even if they do not include letters at all.
The Unfortunate Traveller. The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (originally published as The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton) is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. In this adventurous and episodic work, Nashe's protagonist Jack ...
