W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
“A brilliant, sophisticated, amusing satire.… [
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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, DECEMBER 2000
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American copyright conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Company in 1930. The Vintage edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Cakes and ale, or, The skeleton in the cupboard / W. Somerset Maugham.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-81617-7
I. Authors’ spouses-Fiction. 2. Married people-Fiction.
3. Biographers-Fiction. 4. Authors-Fiction. 5. England-Fiction.
I. Title: Cakes and ale. II. Title: Skeleton in the cupboard. III. Title.
PR6025.A86 C346 2000
823?.912— dc21
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Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
