Cakes and Ale

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, DECEMBER 2000

Copyright 1930 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

Copyright renewed 1958 by W. Somerset Maugham

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American copyright conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Company in 1930. The Vintage edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.

Cakes and ale, or, The skeleton in the cupboard / W. Somerset Maugham.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-81617-7

I. Authors’ spouses-Fiction. 2. Married people-Fiction.

3. Biographers-Fiction. 4. Authors-Fiction. 5. England-Fiction.

I. Title: Cakes and ale. II. Title: Skeleton in the cupboard. III. Title.

PR6025.A86 C346 2000

823′.912—dc21

00-033414

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