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Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham - Dent 1936


Title: Cakes and Ale
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: J. M. Dent Everyman's Library
Publication Date: 1936
Format: Hardcover in jacket
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age with some wear to the jacket and tanned pages.

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Reader's note

Of all Maugham’s novels Cakes and Ale is the gayest. The entrancing character of Rosie, a barmaid with a history and a heart of gold, places the book, as creative literature, on a level with Of Human Bondage. Rosie, in less decorous days, had been married to a famous author whose second wife later nursed him into the position of Grand Old Man of English letters. Some have professed to see a likeness to Thomas Hardy in Edward Driffield, and Hugh Walpole in Alroy Kear, the ambitious but untalented biographer. Maugham, however, has denied any such connection.