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Somerset maugham somerset maugham by anthony curtis the secret lives of somerset maugham by selina hastings maugham. This book is in the public domain in canada, and is made available to you drmfree. A novelist, ashenden is befriended by the ambitious, selfserving alroy kear, who has been commissioned to. Somerset maugham, neil hunt for free with a 30 day free trial.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. As he traces the fortunes of edward driffield and his extraordinary wife rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentiethcentury literature, maughams sardonic wit and lyrical warmth expertly combine in this. Social climber alroy kear is flattered when he is selected by edward driffields wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist. Cakes and ale or the skeleton in the cupboard by maugham. Maugham confessed to a friend that his cruel portrait of walpole had origins in walpoles behaviour towards maughams friend, the society painter sir gerald kelly the lionel hillier of cakes and ale when, after sitting for several portraits, walpole not only dropped kelly but asked him to approach augustus john to paint his. Cakes and ale is a piercing satire of british literary circles, and features apparently very recognisable portraits of authors thomas hardy, and maughams erstwhile friend horace walpole. Her character is treated favourably by the books narrator. Buy cakes and ale book online at low prices in india. Includes new facsimile dust jacket in archival brodart sleeve. Project gutenberg offers 61,845 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone. Cakes and ale mandarin edition chinese edition w maugham cakes and ale mandarin edition chinese edition w maugham cakes and ale is a delicious satire of london literary society between the wars. Cakes and ale is a piercing satire of british literary circles, and features apparently very recognisable portraits of authors thomas hardy, and maugham s erstwhile friend horace walpole. Cakes and ale is a delicious satire of london literary society between the.
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If you scroll up a bit and click the third button under other maugham eresources that says nonfiction with my logo on it, you will go to the ebook page of nonfiction, including travel books and essays. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highestpaid author during the 1930s. Maughams 1930 novel cakes and ale is a thinly veiled portrait of thomas hardy, whose wild inclinations in youth were later tamed into the staid respectability expected of a great novelist by. Project gutenberg offers 61,845 free ebooks for kindle. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, cakes and ale is maugham at his best. Cakes and ale is a satire of london literary society between the. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Click download or read online button to get somerset maugham book now. The story is told by willie ashenden, a character who previously appeared in maughams shortstory collection ashenden. Free downloadable version in various formats including kindle, epub, pdf and others. Somerset william somerset sorted by popularity project gutenberg books by maugham, w.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. When cakes and ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. Cakes and ale is probably the most cheerful of maughams works, considering that it comprises chiefly of the narrators recollections of a carefree summer vacation due to a strange friendship with a middleaged writer, driffield, and his sensuous, friendly wife, rosie. Buy cakes and ale book online at low prices in india cakes. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this cakes and ale study. Social climber alroy kear is flattered when he is selected by edward driffields wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. Both maughams parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Publication date 1920 topics west bengal public library publisher william heinemann, london collection digitallibraryindia.
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. The story is told by a firstperson narrator and welltodo author, william ashenden, who, at the beginning of the novel. Somerset maugham cakes and ale pocketbook 1158 1957 1st printing. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Mar 02, 2000 contentment and a zest for life wafts off the pages like expensive french pefume. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Social climber alroy kear is flattered when he is selected by edward driffields. Listen to unlimited audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. 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. Somerset maugham tells the story of author william ashendens series of contracts over decades with a greatly renowned novelist, and the need of his wouldbe biographer for details that william alone can provide. It is the novel for which maugham wished to be remembered. Somerset maugham, july 1, 1993, penguin classics edition, paperback in english. In maugham s lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny.
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