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Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticismbyWilliam 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:

  1. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingbyHenry Fielding (1749)
  2. Pride and PrejudicebyJane Austen (1813)
  3. The Red and the BlackbyStendhal (1830)
  4. Le Père GoriotbyHonoré de Balzac (1835)
  5. David CopperfieldbyCharles Dickens (1849)
  6. Madame BovarybyGustave Flaubert (1856)
  7. Moby-DickbyHerman Melville (1851)
  8. Wuthering HeightsbyEmily Brontë (1847)
  9. The Brothers KaramazovbyDostoevsky (1880)
  10. War and PeacebyTolstoy (1869)
Ten Novels and Their Authors
First UK edition (1954)
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
Original titleGreatest Novelists and Their Novels
LanguageEnglish
GenreEssays
PublisherWinston (US)
Heinemann (UK)

Publication date

New York (1948)
London (1954)
Publication placeUnited States
United Kingdom

This book was originally a series of magazine articles commissioned by Redbook.

Notes

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  1. ^ Ten Novels and Their Authors. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1954 – via Internet Archive.


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