"Theater" (1937) Somerset Maugham's most famous novel. The subtle, caustic and ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress who celebrates her "midlife crisis" with an affair with a handsome young "predator"? “Vanity Fair” of the Roaring Twenties? Or a timeless, fascinating book in which each reader finds something for himself? “The whole world is a theater, and the people in it are actors!” So it was - and so it will always be! “Christmas Vacation” (1939) A story of passionate, tragic, all-forgiving love, a mysterious crime, the collapse of illusions and endless human loneliness... A short relationship of a rich man an English heir and a Russian emigrant forced to become a “moth”... It seems banal... but only at first glance. Because the young Englishman is far from wanting to have fun, and his casual friend is far from wanting to empty his pockets. In essence, both of them want only one thing - understanding...