Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: December 2000
- 320pp
- Sales Rank: 143,633
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 2000
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 320pp
- Sales Rank: 143,633
- Series: Vintage International Series
- ISBN-13: 9780375725029
- ISBN: 0375725024
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Cakes and Ale roused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1930. It is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skillfully crafted study of freedom. It is also the book for which Maugham wanted most to be remembered.
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W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.
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