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W. Somerset Maugham Archives
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W. Somerset Maugham • 116 Items / 57 Books, 37 Articles, 7 Reviews, 1 Set
Cakes and Ale (1930)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard
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Published Reviews
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    Gammon and Spinach (Review)
    Grenville Vernon
    Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham
    1. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    Commonweal, March 25, 1931, p. 588
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    Thomas Hardy Veiled (Review)
    Mark Van Doren
    Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham
    1. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    The Nation, October 29, 1930, p. 475
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    Veal and Vinegar (Review)
    Howard Coxe
    Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham
    1. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    The New Republic, October 22, 1930, pp. 273-274
  4. Books and the Arts
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    A Very Old Party (Review)
    John Lehmann
    Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham
    1. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    The New Republic, January 8, 1966, p. 23
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    To the Life (Review)
    Stanley Went
    Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham
    1. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    The Saturday Review, October 18, 1930, p. 240
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    Woollcott Presents (3 Reviews)
    Alexander Woollcott
    The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame
    1. The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
    2. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    3. Whilomville Stories by Stephen Crane
    The Saturday Review, October 23, 1937, pp. 13-14
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    Maugham's Half & Half (4 Reviews)
    Gore Vidal
    Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham, by Robert Calder
    1. Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
    2. A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
    3. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
    4. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    The New York Review of Books, February 1, 1990, pp. 39-44
  8. Literary Sign-Posts
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    The Hidebound Closet (5 Reviews)
    R.E. Sherwood
    Mirthful Haven, by Booth Tarkington
    1. Mirthful Haven by Booth Tarkington
    2. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    3. A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
    4. Saint Johnson by W.R. Burnett
    5. Good-Bye to Western Culture by Norman Douglas
    Scribners, October 1930, pp. 21-23
  9. The Leisure Arts
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    The Week's Reading (9 Reviews)
    Frances Lamont Robbins
    The Marks of an Educated Man, by Albert E. Wiggam
    1. The Marks of an Educated Man by Albert E. Wiggam
    2. Po' Buckra by Gertrude Mathews Shelby and Samuel Gaillard Stoney, ...
    3. A Short History of Julia by Isa Glenn
    4. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    5. Great Oaks by Ben Ames Williams
    6. India: Land of the Black Pagoda by Lowell Thomas
    7. Women and Monks by Joseph F. Kallinikov
    8. Over the Hills by Jeffery Farnol
    9. Wolsey by Hilaire Belloc
    The Outlook, November 12, 1930, pp. 426-427
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    Pick of the Paperbacks (10 Reviews)
    The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford
    1. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
    2. A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot by George Williamson
    3. Proust by Samuel Beckett
    4. The Kreutzer Sonata, and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
    5. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    6. Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer
    7. True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality by St. Clair McKelway
    8. The Dance of Siva by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
    9. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
    10. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
    The Saturday Review, April 6, 1957, p. 14
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    Books in Brief (17 Reviews)
    Roadside Meetings, by Hamlin Garland
    1. Roadside Meetings by Hamlin Garland
    2. The Great Jasper by Fulton Oursler
    3. Those Earnest Victorians by Esme C. Wingfield-Stratford
    4. A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
    5. The Future of Drinking by Gilbert Seldes
    6. Angel Pavement by John B. Priestley
    7. Millie by Donald Henderson Clarke
    8. This Pure Young Man by Irving Fineman
    9. Glass Mountain by Joseph Warren Beach
    10. Mirthful Haven by Booth Tarkington
    11. The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson by Genevieve Taggard
    12. Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield
    13. Beggars Abroad by Jim Tully
    14. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
    15. Quiet Street by Michael Ossorgin
    16. Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man by Fred D. Pasley
    17. The Fool of the Family by Margaret Kennedy
    The Forum, November 1930