Cakes and Ale
Successful author William Ashenden is contacted by Alroy Kear, an aspiring writer who has been contracted to write a biography of the late Edward Driffield by his second wife, and hopes that Ashenden can help shed some light on Driffield’s past.
Ashenden is one of the select few to understand the importance of Rosie, Driffield’s first wife, scorned for her sexual liberty but the source of inspiration for her former husband’s greatest works. Ashenden must consider carefully how much to reveal, and how, to ensure that both Edward and Rosie are done justice by Kear’s pen and history’s eye.
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June 7, 2016W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965.
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Abraham Verghese
The Painted Veil
W Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale
W. Somerset Maugham
Theatre
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician
W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
Up at the Villa
W. Somerset Maugham
The Collected Stories
W. Somerset Maugham
Rain
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Selina Hastings
The Skeptical Romancer
W. Somerset Maugham. Edited by Pico Iyer
A Writer's Notebook
W. Somerset Maugham
The Narrow Corner
W. Somerset Maugham