William Somerset Maugham

Of human bondage

1915

a semi-autobiographical account of a young medical student’s painful progress toward maturity;

the moon and sixepence

1939

an account of an unconventional artist, suggested by the life of Paul Gauguin

Cakes an Ales

1944

, the story of a famous novelist, which is thought to contain caricatures of Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole;