Ten Novels and Their Authors

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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:

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.

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^ Ten Novels and Their Authors. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1954 – via Internet Archive.

v t e Works by W. Somerset Maugham
Novels	Liza of Lambeth (1897) Mrs Craddock (1902) 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)
Short story collections	The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) The Casuarina Tree (1926) Ashenden (1928) Ah King (1933) The Mixture as Before (1940) Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Short stories	"Rain" "The Vessel of Wrath" "The Lotus Eater" "The Unconquered"
Plays	Loaves and Fishes (1902) Lady Frederick (1907) Smith (1909) Penelope (1909) The Land of Promise (1913) Our Betters (1917) Caesar's Wife (1919) The Circle (1921) The Constant Wife (1926) The Letter (1927) The Sacred Flame (1928) The Bread-Winner (1930) For Services Rendered (1932) Sheppey (1933)
Non-fiction	On a Chinese Screen (1922) The Summing Up (1938) Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
Adaptations	The Explorer (1915) The Land of Promise (1917) Smith (1917) The Divorcée (1919) Jack Straw (1920) East of Suez (1925) The Circle (1925) The Canadian (1926) The Magician (1926) Sadie Thompson (1928) The Letter (1929) Charming Sinners (1929) Strictly Unconventional (1930) Rain (1932) The Narrow Corner (1933) Our Betters (1933) Of Human Bondage (1934) The Painted Veil (1934) The Right to Live (1935) Secret Agent (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Isle of Fury (1936) Another Dawn (1937) The Vessel of Wrath (1938) The Letter (1940) Too Many Husbands (1940) The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) The Razor's Edge (1946) Of Human Bondage (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Quartet (1948) Trio (1950) Encore (1951) Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) The Beachcomber (1954) The Seventh Sin (1957) Adorable Julia (1962) Of Human Bondage (1964) The Razor's Edge (1984) Up at the Villa (2000) Being Julia (2004) The Painted Veil (2006)
Related	Somerset Maugham Award

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