Somerset Maugham's most famous novel.
A subtle, caustic 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, captivating book in which every reader finds something for themselves?
'All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players!'
So it has been - and so it always will be!