W.Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale". With a Special Introduction for this Edition by Mr. Maugham, published by Modern Library in 1950.

"Cakes and Ale" is a satire of London literary society between the Wars first published in 1930. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, "Cakes and Ale" is Maugham at his best.

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Dust jacket with clipped price corner on the front flap shows some wear and edge creases, hard boards with original publisher’s cloth, slightly bumped bottom corner of the front board, 272 pages, 5" x 7.1/4", slightly cream-color, very good binding and condition. [l5qg]