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Ten Novels and Their Authors

Ten Novels and Their Authors
W. Somerset Maugham

Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 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:

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“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

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Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)

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