The roman a clef was introduced to a wide audience in the novels of Benjamin Disraeli during the Victorian period. W. Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, and Ernest Hemingway have written in this mode, but it has become a particular vogue during the last few decades, in part at least because of the success of The Carpetbaggers. Other Robbins novels.....
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