Ten Novels and Their Authors

File:TenNovels.jpg

First UK edition (publ. Heinemann)

Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 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:

1. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal
4. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
10. War and Peace by Tolstoy

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