Cakes and Ale
by W. Somerset Maugham
279 pages~5 hrs
“History is written by the survivors, but the truth is rarely respectable.”
Behind every literary legend lies a past filled with secrets, scandals, and the unconventional woman the world would rather forget. In this bitingly witty satire, Somerset Maugham peels back the veneer of Victorian respectability to reveal the messy, sun-drenched truth behind a Great Man’s legacy.
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