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_aMaugham, W. Somerset _q(William Somerset), _d1874-1965 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aCakes and ale |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakes_and_Ale | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-05-22 | ||
| 508 | _aProduced by: Al Haines, Cindy Beyer & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net | ||
| 520 | _aCakes 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 narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her, and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours. Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are also the emblems of the good life in Joseph Jacobs' 1912 rendition of Aesop's fable of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear." In his introduction to a Modern Library edition, published in 1950, Maugham wrote, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work ... But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale ... because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield." (This summary is from Wikipedia.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Triangle Books, 1930 |
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| 653 | _aAuthors -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aEngland -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aDomestic fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMarried people -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBiographers -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aAuthors' spouses -- Fiction | ||
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