{"product_id":"cakes-and-ale-folio-society-307","title":"Cakes and Ale","description":"\u003cp\u003eCakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham. 9 full-page monotypes by Dodie Masterman. Bound in green cloth with a pictorial design in black by Masterman. Pale green endleaves. Dark blue slipcase. 22.9x15.9cm. 190pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale is a witty and sophisticated satire of literary society. The novel is narrated by writer William Ashenden, who recalls his youthful friendship with Rosie Driffield, the warm and unconventional first wife of celebrated novelist Edward Driffield. Years later, when a fashionable biographer attempts to create a respectable public image of the dead author, Ashenden remembers a much more complicated and human reality. Maugham uses the story to satirise literary reputation, social hypocrisy and the tendency to reshape inconvenient truths after a famous person's death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216401875283,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421109436755,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/cakes-and-ale-folio-society-307","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}