Ten Novels and Their Authors
1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham
First UK edition (1954) | |
Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
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Original title | Greatest 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 is a 1954 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:
- 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.
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- The Magician (1908)
- Of Human Bondage (1915)
- The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
- The Painted Veil (1925)
- Cakes and Ale (1930)
- The Narrow Corner (1932)
- Theatre (1937)
- Christmas Holiday (1939)
- Up at the Villa (1941)
- The Razor's Edge (1944)
- Then and Now (1946)
- Catalina (1948)
- The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- Ashenden (1928)
- Ah King (1933)
- The Mixture as Before (1940)
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
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- "The Vessel of Wrath"
- "The Lotus Eater"
- "The Unconquered"
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- The Canadian (1926)
- The Magician (1926)
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- The Letter (1929)
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