Somerset Maugham is one of the most popular English writers of the 20th century. He wrote plays that enjoyed successful runs in theaters, penned novels that his contemporaries devoured, and fairly quickly became one of the highest-paid prose writers of his time. "Theatre" (1937).
Somerset Maugham's most famous novel.
A subtle, bitingly ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress marking her "midlife crisis" with an affair with a handsome young "predator"? A "Vanity Fair" of the roaring twenties?
Or—a timeless, utterly captivating book in which every reader finds something personal? "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players!"
So it has been—and so it will always be!
"Christmas Holiday" (1939).
A story of passionate, tragic, forgiving love, a mysterious crime, shattered illusions, and infinite human loneliness… A brief affair between a wealthy English heir and a Russian émigré forced to become a "night butterfly"… It seems banal… but only at first glance. Because the young Englishman is immensely far from wanting a fling, and his chance acquaintance — from a desire to empty his pockets. In essence, both of them want only one thing — understanding…
Author: Somerset Maugham
Translation: Raisa Oblonskaya, Galina Ostrovskaya
Pages: 512 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 32x136x208 mm
Series: Library of Classics
