Editing Picaresque novel (section)

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[Henry Fielding]] proved his mastery of the form in ''[[Joseph Andrews]]'' (1742), ''[[The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great]]'' (1743) and ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' (1749), though Fielding attributed his style to an "imitation of the manner of [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]], author of ''[[Don Quixote]]''".{{efn|The title page of the first edition of ''Joseph Andrews'' lists its full title as: ''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote''.}}

[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] is the master of the 19th-century English picaresque. His best-known work, ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero]]'' (1847–1848) — a title ironically derived from [[John Bunyan]]'s Puritan allegory of redemption ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) — follows the career of fortune-hunting adventuress [[Becky Sharp]], her progress echoing the earlier ''Moll Flanders''. His earlier novel ''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]'' (1844) recounts the rise and fall of an Irish arriviste conniving his way into the 18th-century English aristocracy.

The 1880 Romanian novella [[Ivan Turbincă]] tells the story of a kind, but hedonistic and scheming ex soldier who ends up tricking God, the Devil, and the Grim Reaper so that he can sneak into Heaven to party forever. 

[[Aleko Konstantinov]] wrote the 1895 novel ''[[Bay Ganyo]]'' about the [[Bay Ganyo|eponymous Bulgarian rogue]]. The character conducts business of uneven honesty around Europe before returning home to get into politics and newspaper publishing. Bay Ganyo is a well-known stereotype in Bulgaria.

====Works influenced by the picaresque====
In the English-speaking world, the term "picaresque" has referred more to a [[literary technique]] or model than to the precise genre that the Spanish call ''picaresco''. The English-language term can simply refer to an episodic recounting of the adventures of an [[anti-hero]] on the road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/picaresque-novel|title=Picaresque novel {{!}} literature|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-08-04}}</ref>

[[Laurence Sterne]]'s ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1761–1767) and ''[[A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy]]'' (1768) each have strong picaresque elements. [[Voltaire]]'s [[satirical]] novel ''[[Candide]]'' (1759) contains elements of the picaresque. An interesting variation on the tradition of the picaresque is ''[[The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan]]'' (1824), a satirical view on early 19th-century [[Persia]], written by [[James Morier]]. Another novel on the same theme is ''[[A Rogue's Life]]'' (1857) by [[Wilkie Collins]].

Elements{{clarify|date=July 2018}} of the picaresque novel are found in [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' (1836–37).<ref name="Britannica Picaresque" />[[Nikolai Gogol]] occasionally used the technique, as in ''[[Dead Souls]]'' (1842–52).<ref>{{cite book |last=Striedter |first=Jurij |title=Der Schelmenroman in Russland: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Russischen Romans vor Gogol |location=Berlin |publisher=Freien Universität |year=1961 |oclc=1067476065 |language=de }}</ref> [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) also has some elements of the picaresque novel.<ref name="Britannica Picaresque" />