Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Picaresque

         Cover of Moll Flanders
Picaresque: adjective - relating to rascals and rogues; suggesting fictiondealing with the episodic adventures of a roguish protagonist.Good examples are MollFlanders, by Daniel Defoe and TomJones, by Henry Fielding. Modern readers, and filmgoers, will probably bemore familiar with the genre as demonstrated by the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
'Stuart's novel, relating the adventures of an unqualifiedhospital doctor, was described by reviewers as a picaresque romp.'