Cover of Moll Flanders
Picaresque: adjective - relating to rascals and rogues; suggesting fiction
dealing with the episodic adventures of a roguish protagonist.
Good examples are Moll
Flanders, by Daniel Defoe and Tom
Jones, by Henry Fielding. Modern readers, and filmgoers, will probably be
more familiar with the genre as demonstrated by the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
‘Stuart’s novel, relating the adventures of an unqualified
hospital doctor, was described by reviewers as a picaresque romp.’
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