Theatre. Christmas holidays
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"The Theater" (1937).
Somerset Maugham's most famous novel. A subtle, caustic-ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress, marking the "mid-life crisis" romance with a handsome young "predator"? "Vanity Fair" of the turbulent twenties? Or - a timeless and fascinating book in which each reader finds something for himself or herself? "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). The story of passionate, tragic, forgiving love, a mysterious crime, the collapse of illusions and endless human loneliness ... A short connection of a rich English heir and a Russian emigrant forced to become a "night butterfly" ... It seems banal ... but only at first glance. Because the young Englishman is immeasurably far from the thirst for fun, and his casual friend - from the desire to clean out his pockets. In fact, they both want only one thing: to understand....
Somerset Maugham's most famous novel. A subtle, caustic-ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress, marking the "mid-life crisis" romance with a handsome young "predator"? "Vanity Fair" of the turbulent twenties? Or - a timeless and fascinating book in which each reader finds something for himself or herself? "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). The story of passionate, tragic, forgiving love, a mysterious crime, the collapse of illusions and endless human loneliness ... A short connection of a rich English heir and a Russian emigrant forced to become a "night butterfly" ... It seems banal ... but only at first glance. Because the young Englishman is immeasurably far from the thirst for fun, and his casual friend - from the desire to clean out his pockets. In fact, they both want only one thing: to understand....
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