# Cakes and Ale

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- Book: [Cakes And Ale](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/cakes-and-ale) ([Cakes And Ale.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/cakes-and-ale.md))
- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7572-502-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2000-12-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her...