The Picaresque: The rogue on the open road

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

In this collection

• Tales: Sketches of Young Couples
• The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"
• Blindness
• The War-Song of Gamelbar
• The Wreck on Loch Mcgarry
• Wallace N. Robinson
• Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer
• Mongan's Frenzy
• Two Business Women
• The Tragedy of Othello
• The Soothsayer's Son
• Why Does She Weep?
• Second April: CITY TREES
• Females
• Emancipated Woman
• All Souls
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
• An Artifice
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