About “Ten Novels and Their Authors”
Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1948 literary criticism work by William Somerset Maugham. In the book, Maugham selects what he considers to be the ten greatest novels and provides commentary on each. The selected novels include The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, and War and Peace by Tolstoy. Each entry includes an analysis of the book and its author. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1954
- Latest edition
- 1983 · ISBN 9780330254977
- ISBN
- 9780330254977
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| Cover | Edition | Year | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ten Novels and Their Authors (Pan Books) | 1983 | 9780330254977 | Buy on Amazon |
| | Ten novels and their authors. | 1954 | — | Buy on Amazon |
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How many pages is Ten Novels and Their Authors?
Ten Novels and Their Authors by William Somerset Maugham has 301 pages.
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