He penned "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of British life
... Disguising 
himself as a reporter, Maugham served as a chief agent for British Secret ... 
Cakes and Ale (1930) was social satire on a famous novelist, Edward Driffield, .... 
wrote Christopher Hitchens in his review of Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey
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