Ten Novels And Their Authors

ISBN-13: 9780099286783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In this classic guide, Maugham introduces and discusses what he considers to be the ten greatest novels and their authors. Here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies that enfeeble it. Maugham's choice list: Fielding's Tom Jones; Dickens's David Copperfield; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Balzac's Old Man Goriot; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky; The Red and the Black by Stendhal, Pride and Prejudice by Austen; Melville's Moby Dick; Tolstoy's War and Peace.