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

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• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal
• Le Père Goriot by Honore 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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