Since most of Maugham's fiction, certainly the major novels, is autobiographical, almost any of the principal works could be said to be related in technique, style, point of view, and theme to Cakes and Ale. For instance, he never presents a critical view of an unpretentious female character, especially a lowborn one; he tends to reserve his pejorative views for upper-class, haughty women. His dependence on first person point of view in The Razor's Edge (1944; see separate entry) and The.....
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