Picaresque · Skopia

Books

14

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

1605★ 9.7

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884★ 9.3

The Tin Drum

1959★ 8.3

Candide

1759★ 8.2

Dead Souls

1842★ 8.1

The Savage Detectives

1998★ 7.7

All 14 in books →

Quotes

2

Novel · Coming of age story · Picaresque

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Tom Jones · 1749

★ 4.3

Novel · Picaresque

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman.

Alain Rene Lesage

1724

★ 2.7