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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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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 ]
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The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).
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 Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils. [5] In Maugham's foreword, he writes that the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation."