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Christmas Holiday
W. Somerset Maugham

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Christmas Holiday

Vintage Books (1 Jun 2001)
9780099286851
| Paperback
256 pages | 130 x 197 mm | English
$ 7.99 | Value: $ 7.99
Dewey 823.912

Subject

  • Criminals
  • Devil's Island (French Guiana)
  • English
  • Paris (France)
  • Young Men

Plot

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest friends. Yet Paris is not what he expects - in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the tragedies and ugly dramas of its underworld.