Ten Novels and Their Authors
First UK edition (1954) | |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
|---|---|
| Original title | Great Novelists and Their Novels |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Essays |
| Publisher | Winston (US) Heinemann (UK) |
Publication date | New York (1948) London (1954) |
| Publication place | United States United Kingdom |
Ten Novels and Their Authors (originally published as Great Novelists and Their Novels) is a 1948 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:[2][3][4]
- 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)
This book was originally a series of magazine articles commissioned by Redbook.
Notes
- ^ Ten Novels and Their Authors. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1954 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Guests At Mr. Somerset Maugham's Party". The Illustrated London News. 20 November 1954. p. 28. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ^ "Favourite Authors". Staffordshire Newsletter. 18 December 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ^ "The 10 Greatest Novels?". The Tennessean. 8 May 1955. p. 69. Retrieved 28 November 2025.