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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.
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Classical in form, cool, comic and ironic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Triangle Books, Heinemann, Edito-Service
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780745161495
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William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis while he was young, a death which traumatized him for life. Two years later, his father died of cancer, and he was sent to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. His uncle was cold and cruel, and the boarding school he attended, The King's School in Canterbury, was also miserable for him. At sixteen, he refused to continue at The King's School and he was allowed to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heid
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