A Scream Goes Through the House
by Arnold Weinstein | 
The Broken Estate
by James Wood | 
The Irresponsible Self
by James Wood | 
On Literature
by Umberto Eco | 
The Liberal Imagination
by Lionel Trilling |
Fiction and the Figures of Life
by William H. Gass | 
Theory of literature
by Rene Wellek |
Anatomy of Criticism
by Northrop Frye | 
An Experiment in Criticism
by C. S. Lewis | 
The Fun Stuff
by James Wood | 
How Fiction Works
by James Wood | 
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass | 
How Novels Work
by John Mullan | 
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
by Orhan Pamuk |
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, Ten Novels and Their Authors is a unique and invaluable guide.