Ten Novels and Their Authors in the context of "War and Peace"

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⭐ Core Definition: Ten Novels and Their Authors

Ten Novels and Their Authors (originally published as Great Novelists and Their Novels) is a 1948 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. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749)
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  3. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)
  4. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
  5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849)
  6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
  7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
  8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
  9. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (1880)
  10. 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 in the context of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels, in which Maugham ranks the ten best novels of the world.

The novel is highly organised despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. It became a best-seller, with four editions published in its first year alone. It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel.

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Literary criticism → William Somerset Maugham → The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling → Henry Fielding → Pride and Prejudice → Jane Austen → The Red and the Black → Stendhal → Le Père Goriot → Honoré de Balzac → David Copperfield (novel) → Charles Dickens → Madame Bovary → Gustave Flaubert → Moby-Dick → Herman Melville → Wuthering Heights → Emily Brontë → The Brothers Karamazov → Fyodor Dostoevsky → War and Peace → Leo Tolstoy → Redbook →