The novel “Lisa from Lambeth,” published for the first time in Russian, is significant for the English writer, because it is this novel (which all domestic fans of the author have heard about, but no one has read) that opens Somerset Maugham’s difficult path to world fame. The novel, created in the best traditions of the “natural school,” is a sad story of the life of eighteen-year-old Lisa, a lively and perky girl from a working-class suburb, who had the misfortune of falling in love with a strong, powerful and married man. The story of a tragedy in which Lisa artlessly surrenders to her feelings, meekly accepting the lot that has befallen her.