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Cakes and Ale: Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Moscow: Moscow Progress Publishing, 1980. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Interesting edition of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of literary memory and the veracity of biography. Text in english with Russian notes and introduction. Some shelfwear, rubbing and slight markings to cloth boards. Previous owner's signature. Contents are clean and tight. Good overall.
Synopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf , sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands , in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000812
- Title
- Cakes and Ale: Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Moscow Progress Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Moscow
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- fiction, literature,
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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