Ten Novels and Their Authors
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
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
- War and Peace by Tolstoy
 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.
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