The Theater (1937)Somerset Maugham's most famous novel.A subtle, poignantly ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress celebrating her "mid-life crisis" with an affair with a handsome young "predator"? Vanity Fair of the roaring twenties?Or is it a timeless and 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 Holidays" (1939) A story of passionate, tragic, all-forgiving love, a mysterious crime, disillusionment and endless human loneliness... A short relationship between a rich English heir and a Russian emigrant forced to become a "night moth"... It seems banal... but only at first glance. Because the young Englishman is infinitely far from the thirst for fun, and his casual friend - from the desire to empty his pockets. In essence, both of them want only one thing - understanding ...