Cakes Ale by William Somerset (24 results)

Condition: Good. 1965. Reprinted. 203 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

13th Cardinal Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages; Description: viii, 186 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects: Authors' spouses -- Married people -- Biographers -- Authors -- England -- Fiction. Series: Cardinal Editions 50c ; 50029. 1 Kg.

13th Cardinal Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages; Description: viii, 186 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects: Authors' spouses -- Married people -- Biographers -- Authors -- England -- Fiction. Series: Cardinal Editions 50c ; 50029. 1 Kg.

Rústica Editorial Ilustrada. Condition: Buen Estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Sin sobrecubiertas. 270pp, EN INGLES, SOBRE EL AUTOR:: William Somerset Maugham (París, 25 de enero de 1874 - Niza, 16 de diciembre de 1965) fue novelista, dramaturgo, ensayista, espía y escritor de cuentos en lengua inglesa. Durante la década de 1930 fue considerado el escritor más exitoso y rico del mundo.A lo largo de 60 años escribió más de 100 historias cortas y 21 novelas, además de gran número de piezas teatrales, biografías, libros de viajes y ensayos.Se considera que Of Human Bondage (Servidumbre humana), obra maestra de Maugham, viene a ser una novela autobiográfica, pues su protagonista, Philip Carey, es huérfano y es criado por un tío piadoso, como en el caso de Maugham. La deformación de los pies de Philip, le provoca una gran autoconciencia y vergüenza, que evocan los problemas de Maugham con su tartamudez. Las últimas novelas de éxito también estaban basadas en personajes reales: The Moon and Sixpence narra la vida de Paul Gauguin, y Cakes and Ale contiene sutiles caracterizaciones de los escritores Thomas Hardy y Hugh Walpole. La novela más importante de Maugham, El filo de la navaja (The Razor's Edge), publicada en 1944, fue una caso atípico en su producción. Aunque la mayor parte de la novela se desarrolla en Europa, sus principales personajes son americanos, y no británicos. El protagonista es un decepcionado veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial que abandona a sus amigos ricos y su estilo de vida, y viaja a la India en busca de la iluminación. El elemento autobiográfico está de nuevo presente, ya que el protagonista se había enrolado como voluntario en una unidad de aviación y Maugham hizo lo propio en una unidad de ambulancias de la Cruz Roja. Los temas del misticismo oriental y el asco provocado por la guerra chocaron a los lectores en unos momentos en que estaba acabando la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y enseguida se hizo una adaptación cinematográfica. De entre sus narraciones cortas, destacan las que tienen que ver con las vidas de los colonos, muchos de ellos británicos, del lejano oeste americano, en las que se trata el precio emocional que deben pagar los colonos por su aislamiento. Algunas de las más destacables dentro de este género son Rain, Footprints in the Jungle, y The Outstation. Rain, en especial, que narra la desintegración moral de un misionero que intentaba convertir a Sadie Thompson, una prostituta de una isla del Pacífico, adquirió una gran fama y se ha adaptado al cine en diversas ocasiones. Maugham dijo que muchas de sus narraciones cortas estaban basadas en historias reales que oyó durante sus viajes a los confines del imperio británico. Dejó tras de él una larga colección de anfitriones enojados, y un escritor anti-Maugham contemporáneo escribió una memoria de sus viajes titulada "Gin and Bitters". La prosa contenida de Maugham le permite explorar las tensiones y las pasiones sin caer en el melodrama. Su novela The Magician (1908) está basada en el ocultista británico Aleister Crowley. Maugham fue uno de los escritores de viajes más destacados de los años de entreguerras, y puede equipararse con contemporáneos de la talla de Evelyn Waugh y Freya Stark. Entre sus mejores obras de este estilo cabe destacar The Gentleman in the Parlour, sobre un viaje a través de Birmania, Siam, Camboya y Vietnam, y On a Chinese Screen, una serie de breves viñetas que pueden ser, incluso, borradores de cuentos que jamás desarrolló. Influido por los diarios que publicó el escritor francés Jules Renard, Maugham publicó en 1949 unas selecciones de sus propios diarios bajo el título de "A Writer's Notebook". Aunque los textos seleccionados son, por naturaleza, episódicos y de calidad variable, cubren más de 50 años de la vida del escritor y contienen mucho material interesante para los eruditos y admiradores de Maugham. Size: 19x14cm.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves, 1-270 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: Married people ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves, 1-270 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: Married people ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Gut. 827 Seiten Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, leicht beschmutzt, leicht eingerissen und am Rücken leicht ausgeblichen, Fußschnitt minimal beschmutzt, Einbandkanten und Rücken minimal bestoßen, Seitenränder minimal gebräunt Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1270 15x23,5cm Ledereinband mit Schutzumschlag.

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1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3-827p 24cm. Subjects: English fiction. Fiction in English. Fiction in English, 1900 Texts. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used. Penguin, 1948. Used. 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 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 embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

First Edition. CAKES AND ALE OR THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, Heinemann, 1930, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with soiling to the tissue backed dust-wrapper and chips missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine.

First Edition. CAKES AND ALE OR THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, Doubleday, Doran, 1930, first American edition, vg+ in attractive dust-wrapper with some light chipping, dust-soil and tears. Still a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first state of one of Maugham's most popular and by acclaim finest works, with all three uncorrected errors (missing "t" on page 147, line 14; dropped letter "l" on page 63, line 22; and "in" instead of "it" on page 181, line 4). Original navy blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. 270 pages, 8vo, with dust jacket. Chipping to toned cloth spine. Minor bowing to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown, stamp to rear pastedown, both diminutive. Chipping and scratching to toned paper spine, with minor loss just above the title. Light rubbing and chipping to dj overall.

First Edition. Limited edition signed by Maugham anfd Suterland. Original slipcase and glassine dust jacket. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 255pages. Subjects : English fiction. Fiction in English. Literature, English novel 20th century. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Limited edition signed by Maugham anfd Suterland. Original slipcase and glassine dust jacket. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 255pages. Subjects : English fiction. Fiction in English. Literature, English novel 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Cakes and Ale" by William Somerset Maugham. William Heinemann, London. 1930 first UK edition first printing. Signed presentation inscription from the author to C. W. Dawes (collector of erotica, bibliographer and writer) to endpaper, scattered spotting, original cloth, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short closed tear to foot of upper panel, some light spotting and slight surface soiling but an excellent example overall. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her, and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours. In his introduction to a Modern Library edition, published in 1950, Maugham wrote, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work . But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale . because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield. Signed by Author.