Cakes and Ale

Acclaim for

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

“A brilliant, sophisticated, amusing satire.… [Cakes and Ale] has pages of perfectly priceless writing.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Cakes and Ale is … a brilliant and bitter satire on the art of formal biography.”

—New York Herald-Tribune

“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman.… [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.”

—Saturday Review of Literature

“[Cakes and Ale is] an extraordinary work.”

—The New Yorker