He penned "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of British life
Search Texts ... [PAR] While his life was less-than idyllic at times and he raised the ire of many, he 
made notable ... William Somerset Maugham was born on 25 December 1874 at 
the British ... but by his own words "I amused myself hugely and wrote a bad 
novel.