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In 1930 Maugham published the novel Cakes and Ale, regarded by Connon as the most likely of the author's works to survive. [5] This book, described by Raphael as "an elegant piece of literary malice", [ 73 ] is a satire on the literary world and a humorously cynical observation of human mating. [ 73 ]
"Somerset Maugham Tells a Story of the Lady from Poona" 3 May 1951: News Chronicle "The Bidding Started Slowly" June 1952: The Connoisseur: Letter to the editor 8 October 1952: John O'London's Weekly "Looking Back on Eighty Years" 28 January 1954: The Listener "Somerset Maugham and the Greatest Novels" June – October 1954 The Sunday Times ...
Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative opprobrium. Her character is treated favourably by the book's ...
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A character named "William Ashenden" is the narrator of Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale. [30] A character named Ashenden also appears in several other of Maugham's short stories. The character appears briefly in the book The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman. "Ashenden" is mentioned a number of times in the Mick Herron novel "Slow Horses".
The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932. [1]A quote from Meditations, iii 10, by Marcus Aurelius, [2] introduces the work: "Short therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells."
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1930 through 1939. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.