Cakes and Ale roused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1930. It is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skillfully crafted study of freedom. It is also the book for which Maugham wanted most to be remembered.

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, lov...(展开全部)

Cakes and Ale roused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1930. It is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skillfully crafted study of freedom. It is also the book for which Maugham wanted most to be remembered.

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, lov...(展开全部)

When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real shepherds' and drills are relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearm...(展开全部)

National Service: two years of square-bashing, kit layout, shepherd’s pie ‘made from real shepherds’, PT and drill, relieved only by the occasional lecture on VD. Conscription has made Jonathan Browne and Mike ‘Ginger’ Brady prisoners of the British Army. But reckless, impulsive Mike and pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to...(展开全部)

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

單車上的城市小旅行 您和孩子曾經用這種方式逛過台北嗎？ 前所未有的單車圖畫書體驗！ 「環保減碳！」──近幾年，這個愛地球的響亮口號在全世界的各個角落蔓延開來；不論都會或鄉村，許多大人領著小孩、呼朋引伴，騎著大大小小的單車，在大馬路、巷弄、河邊、公園、田野、山路……穿梭奔馳，讓風景安安靜靜的滑過身邊，盡情實踐「愛地球」，並享受「樂活」。 如果，感受特別纖細敏銳的童書創作者，也在某個下午騎上了單車，他們筆下的世界又會是什麼模樣呢？ 連獲兩屆「信誼幼兒文學獎圖畫書創作獎」青睞的新銳童書創作者──孫心瑜──繼深受好評的《一日遊》之後，即以細膩的心思、獨特的創意和純熟的技法，將自己在單車上看到、感受到的台北景象和生活氣息，精采呈現在《午後》這本無字圖畫書裡。除了在單車上觀察到的風景，這位愛狗的創作者更以雙線同時進行的說故事手法，觀照在她騎單車出門期間、被留在家...(展开全部)

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

單車上的城市小旅行 您和孩子曾經用這種方式逛過台北嗎？ 前所未有的單車圖畫書體驗！ 「環保減碳！」──近幾年，這個愛地球的響亮口號在全世界的各個角落蔓延開來；不論都會或鄉村，許多大人領著小孩、呼朋引伴，騎著大大小小的單車，在大馬路、巷弄、河邊、公園、田野、山路……穿梭奔馳，讓風景安安靜靜的滑過身邊，盡情實踐「愛地球」，並享受「樂活」。 如果，感受特別纖細敏銳的童書創作者，也在某個下午騎上了單車，他們筆下的世界又會是什麼模樣呢？ 連獲兩屆「信誼幼兒文學獎圖畫書創作獎」青睞的新銳童書創作者──孫心瑜──繼深受好評的《一日遊》之後，即以細膩的心思、獨特的創意和純熟的技法，將自己在單車上看到、感受到的台北景象和生活氣息，精采呈現在《午後》這本無字圖畫書裡。除了在單車上觀察到的風景，這位愛狗的創作者更以雙線同時進行的說故事手法，觀照在她騎單車出門期間、被留在家...(展开全部)