aTen Novels and Their Authors

In 1945, Maugham was invited by American Redbook magazine to list a reading list of top ten novels all over the world in his heart, and wrote a series of book reviews to review the process of these novels, writing techniques and tic characteristics, and there was the Ten Novels and Their Authors. The ten novels and their authors areisFielding and Tom Jones, Austin and Pride and Prejudice, Stendhal and Red and Black, Balzac and Le Pere Goriot, Dickens and David Copperfield, Flaubert and Madame Bouvary, Melville and While Wale, Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights, Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov, Tolstoy and War and Peace. The way that Maugham reviewed these ten novels is very simple, it is "e;understand human beings and reflect on society"e;. Maugham didn't sing a different tune and try to please the public with claptrap on purpose, but wiping off all false embellish and his deep insight in to human nature and his rich experience to be a novelist to really show consideration for writers and works he reviewed as well as leading readers to taste and appreciate. So the review of one novel author on the novel authors in his heart has become the classic of literary review, and even become the unique literary guide to common readers.