The Picaresque

The wandering-rascal novel — Don Quixote, Moll Flanders, Tom Jones — episodic, comic, and gloriously disreputable.

The rogue on the open road

In this collection

• The Shadow of the Leader
• Whether or Not
• Two Fights with Swordfish
• Liars
• Balsamo, The Magician
• Under the Lilacs
• The Creation
• His Excellency the Governor
• My Roomy
• The Captive
• A Glass of Whisky
• Seth Compton
• In Port
• Sorrow in Sunlight
• The Sentimentality of William Tavener
• Vane of the Timberlands
• George Moore
• In Sabine
• The Illustrious Dr. Mathéus

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