Cakes and Ale
A Classics, European Literature, Literature book. A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and...
Cakes and Ale is a 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. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 308 pages
- ISBN: 9780375725029 / 375725024
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I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with. W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard Beauty does not look with good grace on the timid advances of Humour. W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
This is a novel that starts out brilliantly and becomes less interesting as the narrative progresses. Purely as a reader, I found the douchebaggish Alroy Kear the most appealing character, and his rivalries with the narrator Ashenden more engaging than the storyline of the author Edward Driffield, so sparely sketched as to be almost... This book was a pure delight to read. I loved how the inflections of class, dry wit, and observations encompassed the plot. This caused me to slow my reading, enjoy the story, and savor Maugham's words. For example: "Beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied? It is only to the dullard that... Why oh why have I not read anything by Maugham before? Not having done so is my loss, and one which I must continue to remedy without delay. I decided to read one of Maugham's novels because I knew from Gordon Bowker's biography of George Orwell that Orwell was a great admirer of his writing. This particular novel suggested itself because...
