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Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.
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Cakes and Ale, William Somerset Maugham
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- Released
- 1975
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- Title
- Cakes and Ale
- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Somerset Maugham
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1975
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0140006516
- ISBN13
- 9780140006513
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Classics, 20th century, British Literature, England, Literary Fiction, English Literature, Marriage, Writers, 1930s, Mistresses, Intellectuals
- First published
- 1930
- Original title
- Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.