Ten Novels and Their Authors explained

Ten Novels and Their Authors
Title Orig:Greatest Novelists and Their Novels
Author:W. Somerset Maugham
Country:United States
United Kingdom
Language:English
Genre:Essays
Publisher:Winston (US)
Heinemann (UK)
Release Date:New York (1948)
London (1954)

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:

  1. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749)
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  3. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)
  4. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
  5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849)
  6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
  7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
  8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
  9. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (1880)
  10. War and Peace by Tolstoy (1869)

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ten Novels and Their Authors . London . William Heinemann Ltd. . 1954 . registration . .