Cakes And Ale

W. Somerset Maugham Nicholas Shakespeare (Introduksjon)

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«Cakes and Ale is a delightfully tart, meandering meditation on what it means to be an author, and its comments on the fickleness of literary celebrity are prescient and amusing. Maugham sees clearly that books are famous because of who tells you to like them, and that authors are 'good' because they are said to be.»
Time Out

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE

Cakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature, Maugham's sardonic wit and lyrical warmth expertly combine in this accomplished and unforgettable novel.

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Detaljer

Forlag: Vintage Classics
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN: 9780099282778
Utgivelsesår: 2000
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

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«Cakes and Ale is a delightfully tart, meandering meditation on what it means to be an author, and its comments on the fickleness of literary celebrity are prescient and amusing. Maugham sees clearly that books are famous because of who tells you to like them, and that authors are 'good' because they are said to be.»
Time Out

«A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact, irony and total absence of pomposity»
Spectator

«[A] witty Thirties novel… Great fun»
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

«One of my favourite writers»
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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lily – 19.05.2005

– This is one amazing little book. Its about a young man, who watches the relationship of two older acquaintances as it develops and changes. But it's really a story about love and pretensions writers and shallowness and freedom and the nature of beauty and art and its about so many of the things I care about. How can anyone not love it? Maugham writes as an old friend, and hes always gently mocking, subtly satirical and humane in a way few writers accomplish. Dear Mr. Maugham. I am your fangirliest fan. You amaze me and surprise me in the most satisfying of ways. In the word of every other fangirl out there; Squee!

lily – 19.05.2005

– This is one amazing little book. It's about a young man, who watches the relationship of two older acquaintances as it develops and changes. But its really a story about love and pretensions writers and shallowness and freedom and the nature of beauty and art and its about so many of the things I care about. How can anyone not love it? Maugham writes as an old friend, and hes always gently mocking, subtly satirical and humane in a way few writers accomplish. Dear Mr. Maugham. I am your fangirliest fan.
You amaze me and surprise me in the most satisfying of ways. In the word of every other fangirl out there; Squee!