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Somerset Maugham

 

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Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale

Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. All London is ringing with it. For there poor Hugh [Walpole] is most cruelly and maliciously at the same time unmistakably and amusingly caricatured [as Alroy Kear]. He was sitting on his bed with only one sock on when he opened it. There he sat with only one sock on till 11 next morning reading it [...] He almost wept in front of Hilda Matheson, Vita [Sackville-West] and Clive [Bell], in telling us. And he couldn't stop. Whenever we changed the conversation he went back.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Somerset Maugham : A Christmas Holiday

'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

 

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