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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 opprobrium. 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.

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  • Cakes and Ale (en)
  • Seine erste Frau (de)
  • Пироги и пиво (ru)
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  • Seine erste Frau (engl. Cakes and Ale) ist ein Roman von William Somerset Maugham, der 1930 bei Heinemann in London und im selben Jahr bei Doubleday Doran in New York City erschien. Rosie und die Künstler ist eine weitere Übertragung dieser dezenten Literatursatire ins Deutsche (Diogenes Verlag, Zürich). (de)
  • «Пироги и пиво, или Скелет в шкафу» (англ. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard) — роман Сомерсета Моэма, впервые появившийся в 1930 году на страницах журнала Harper’s Bazaar. Название романа позаимствовано из пьесы Уильяма Шекспира «Двенадцатая ночь». (ru)
  • 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 opprobrium. 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. (en)
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  • Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (en)
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  • Cakes and Ale (en)
  • Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (en)
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  • William Heinemann Ltd. (UK); Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. (US)
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  • William Heinemann Ltd. ; Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. (en)
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  • 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 opprobrium. 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. Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are also the emblems of the good life in the moral of the fable attributed to Aesop, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear." 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." (en)
  • Seine erste Frau (engl. Cakes and Ale) ist ein Roman von William Somerset Maugham, der 1930 bei Heinemann in London und im selben Jahr bei Doubleday Doran in New York City erschien. Rosie und die Künstler ist eine weitere Übertragung dieser dezenten Literatursatire ins Deutsche (Diogenes Verlag, Zürich). (de)
  • «Пироги и пиво, или Скелет в шкафу» (англ. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard) — роман Сомерсета Моэма, впервые появившийся в 1930 году на страницах журнала Harper’s Bazaar. Название романа позаимствовано из пьесы Уильяма Шекспира «Двенадцатая ночь». (ru)
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