Cakes and ale, or, the skeleton in the cupboard 1930 is a novel by the british author w. Somerset maugham ushers the reader into literary london, a breeding ground for selfimportance and false appearances. Cakes and aleroused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1930. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cakes and ale. William somerset maugham was born at the british embassy in paris, france. It is difficult to find a novel that is more of a roman a clef than cakes and ale.
Somerset maugham cakes and ale is several things all of them well written. Social climber alroy kear is flattered when he is selected by edward driffields. Cakes and ale is a delicious satire of london literary society between the wars. Somerset maugham s cakes and ale a delicious satire of london literary society between the wars.
Review of cakes and ale by somerset maugham john david. Publication date 1930 topics cdac collection digitallibraryindia. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Contentment and a zest for life wafts off the pages like expensive french pefume. Based on the original penguin triband design, this print shows the cover of w. Cakes and ales can be read at several levels, from the surface level satire of the english literati to a bildungsroman, or coming of age book. As we learn from selina hastings in her excellent biography, the secret lives of somerset maugham, cakes and ale was written in 1930 in maugham s sumptuous home, the villa mauresque on cap ferrat, at the time in his life when he was happiest and most content. Cakes and ale is a satire of london literary society between the wars. Cakes and ale is a delicious satire of london literary society between the. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character rosie driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Somerset maugham cakes and ale with an introduction by nicholas shakespeare vintage books london contents cover title contents.
Review of cakes and ale by somerset maugham youtube. Twelfth night takes for its theme the doubleness of human character, ranging from the calculated hypocrisy of the virtuous exemplified by literary opportunist and wouldbe biographer alroy kear to the animal weaknesses of the goodhearted yet unreformable rosie, former barmaid. Ebook cakes and ale as pdf download portable document format. Somerset maugham s cakes and ale dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale.
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