Jump to content

Ten Novels and Their Authors

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by NYArtsnWords (talk | contribs) at 00:10, 2 March 2006 (link fix for more direct). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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

  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 Gustav 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.

Stub icon

This article about a non-fiction book is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten_Novels_and_Their_Authors&oldid=41825764"