Ten Novels and Their Authors
- Ten Novels and Their Authors
"Ten Novels and Their Authors" is a work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. 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:
#"Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
#"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
#"Le Rouge et le Noir" by Stendhal
#"Le Père Goriot" by Honoré de Balzac
#"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
#"Madame Bovary" by Gustav Flaubert
#"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
#"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
#"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
#"War and Peace" by Tolstoy
This book was originally a series of magazine articles commissioned by "Redbook".
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