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Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham.[1] Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest novels and writes about the books and the authors. The ten novels are:
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)
- Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849)
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (1880)
- War and Peace by Tolstoy (1869)
 First UK edition (1954) | |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
|---|---|
| Original title | Greatest Novelists and Their Novels |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Essays |
| Publisher | Winston (US) Heinemann (UK) |
Publication date | New York (1948) London (1954) |
This book was originally a series of magazine articles commissioned by Redbook.
Notes edit
- ^ Ten Novels and Their Authors. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1954 – via Internet Archive.
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