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Cakes and ale by w somerset maugham
Cakes and ale by w somerset maugham













cakes and ale by w somerset maugham

He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.ĭuring World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service. Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim.

cakes and ale by w somerset maugham

For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874.

cakes and ale by w somerset maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874.















Cakes and ale by w somerset maugham