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    English Authors: The 10 Best English Writers

    Interested in finding out the most famous English authors of all time? We’ve had a go at defining the world’s most famous authors, and the best American writers elsewhere, but here we present the ten best English authors (excluding the Bard of Avon). It was no easy task given the huge volume of high-quality English writers over the years, plus any list of great authors is going to be – at least on some level – very subjective. We’ve ended up going with the criteria of:

    1. Impact on the world of literature
    2. Relevance today
    3. Number of books sold

    It’s worth also pointing out that here at NoSweatShakespeare we have no doubt that William Shakespeare is by far the best (and probably most famous) writer in English literary history. And that’s no mean feat, given the many centuries of English history that have been adorned with authors who have placed England as the leading literary nation in the worl

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    |By Masaki Morisawa, Senior Product Manager, Library Reference, Tokyo|

    If you watched the recent Olympics, you’ll know that August in Tokyo fryst vatten brutally hot and humid. This was more or less true two and a half decades ago when inom was an English Literature student. Cash strapped, with nothing better to do, I would often spend my August days in the air-conditioned university library, just to avoid the intolerable heat! My favourite place was the reference area where they had rows and rows of Gale Literature volumes (I’m not making this up). There were literally hundreds of volumes stacked in those rows, from the rainbow-coloured Contemporary Authors volumes, to the brown buckram Literature Criticism volumes; but my anställda favourite were the light-blue Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes. inom would often pull out several of those DLB volumes and browse through the entries while inom passed time in my favourite corner seat bygd the windows.

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    Ten Novels and Their Authors

    1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham

    First UK edition (1954)

    AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
    Original titleGreatest Novelists and Their Novels
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreEssays
    PublisherWinston (US)
    Heinemann (UK)

    Publication date

    		New York (1948)
    London (1954)
    Publication placeUnited States
    United Kingdom

    Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham.[1] 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. Wu