[DOC] [TLE] Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) | Reading 1900-1950 [PAR] Jul 2, 2014 ... Walpole was an important literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s: a best-selling ... 
of modern English literature') a middlebrow standard of taste has been set up; ... 
Early in 1907 he wrote her a fan letter which resulted in him going to ... the 
publication of Somerset Maugham's novel Cakes and Ale in 1930. [DOC] [TLE] Cakes and Ale | Nicholas Shakespeare [PAR] Cakes and Ale; or The Skeleton in the Cupboard was the first book that he ... 
divorce, and it was published on September 29, 1930, causing an immediate 
furore. ... of the glories of English literature had nothing to do with his prose style; 
rather, ... of English Letters were  like Maugham himself  physically small; grew 
up in... [DOC] [TLE] The Great And the Good - The New Yorker [PAR] May 31, 2010 ... As Selina Hastings writes in her new biography, The Secret Lives of ... Yet 
during the seven years I spent studying English literature at two ... In his 
autobiography, The Summing Up, published in 1938, when he was sixty-four, 
he ..... When his novel Cakes and Ale appeared, in 1930, all of literary London... [DOC] [TLE] English Literature: Cakes and Ale: Maugham [PAR] Cakes and Ale he calls his novel, meaning not bread and water. Moreover, the 
one time he tried to cook up a novel around one of the great events in world... [DOC] [TLE] William Somerset Maugham - The Literature Network [PAR] William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and author wrote Of 
... Philip Carey sets out on an unconventional life, struggling in his search for ... of 
a thinly-veiled satirical attack on Thomas Hardy in Cakes and Ale (1930). ... his 
life to Europe, North America, the Far East, the South Seas and beyond; he also... [DOC] [TLE] Grand Old Man of Letters | America Magazine [PAR] Jan 3, 2011 ... He further directed his literary executor not to assist in any way ... read writers of 
the 20th century: The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, ... Maugham's father, 
an English solicitor who handled the legal affairs of his ... Cakes and Ale (1930), 
for example, is seen as a veiled satirical attack on Thomas Hardy. [DOC] [TLE] The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings, Review ... [PAR] Jun 2, 2010 ... A new biography of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his 
complicated love life and defends his literary genius. ... Somerset Maugham 
begins his novel Cakes and Ale with one of the more suave, and lethal, openings 
in ... Bait set; trap sprung; a dry Gibson gin martini served straight-up. [DOC] [TLE] Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) - British Library [PAR] Brought up originally in France, Maugham lost his mother at the age of eight. ... 
philosophy and literature at Heidelberg University and then in London he 
qualified as a ... novel describing his unhappiness and anxiety in early life and 
recounting his ... Maugham served in the British Intelligence Service in World 
Wars I and II. [DOC] [TLE] William Shakespeare - Timeline | Facebook [PAR] William Shakespeare (April 1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, 
widely regarded ... "Out o' tune, sir. You lie. Art any ... CAKES AND ALE is a 
delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber ..... 
Harini Mysore until feelings are alive shakespeares lives, he is immortal. 3  
September 24... [DOC] [TLE] Random Reflections on Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale [PAR] Sep 15, 2013 ... Serialisation of the novel started as early as March 1930, so it must have been ... 
Even on this superficial level Cakes and Ale stands out, as nowhere else is ... 
Maugham's character which comes to life in Willie Ashenden's first person ... but 
incisive and devastating, satire of the English literary world from the... [DOC] [TLE] RosieBell: Somerset Maugham [PAR] May 23, 2010 ... I've

Question: He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life
Answer: Somerset Maugham