id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-925 The Adventures of Augie March - Wikipedia .html text/html 2209 225 73 The Adventures of Augie March First edition cover The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. The Adventures of Augie March won the 1954 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.[3][4] When the Swedish Academy awarded Bellow the 1976 Nobel Prize in literature, their press release noted that his novels, including Augie March, use a picaresque style that dates back to the earliest origins of the European novel. Unlike other picaresque novels, such as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, the plot of Augie March is never pre-determined. The Adventures of Augie March (London: Penguin Books, 2001), p. Study guide about the novel The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-925.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-925.txt