Sentences with phrase «picaresque adventures»
Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.
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Not that such an answer is wholly false: Certainly the more picaresque side of Juan's adventures — the veil of night, the cloaked figure stealing over balconies and through windows, the sordid incognito — seems only quaint in light of today's morbidly austere and functionalist venereal aesthetics.
The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).
It's an effortless balance of romance and adventure against a picaresque landscape populated by eccentrics and social register smoothies, none of whom what they appear to be.
John Kennedy Toole's hilariously picaresque novel about the implacable Ignatius J. Reilly: a «huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter - day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter» and his adventures in New Orleans.
Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.