The most famous novel by Somerset Maugham.

A subtle, acidly ironic story of a brilliant, clever actress, marking her 'mid-life 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 personally for themselves?

'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players!'

So it was — and so it will always be!