Cakes and Ale (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Late 1920’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, Literature, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, London, Widows or widowers, Biography
- Locales: London, England, Kent, England
Places Discussed
*London. Britain’s great city, like New York and Paris, hosts the literary marketplace where Edward Driffield, perhaps the last of the great Victorian novelists, has risen from the modest ambience of Blackstable in rural Kent County to eminence largely because he outlived temporary fashions. An opportunist named Alroy Kear—a minor novelist but one seasoned in Bloomsburyan deceptions—finds, in orchestrating the dead Driffield’s life, that he must deal with Blackstable and what he deems the unmarketability of the “provincial.” Through the sensitive...
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