Christmas Holiday - Softcover

Maugham W Somerset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099599937 ISBN 13: 9780099599937

Publisher: Central Book House / RH, 2015

Synopsis

This title is exclusively available from Vintage Classics.At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimore, his oldest friend.Yet Paris is not what he expects. And in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the horror and ugly drama of its underworld. Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, Maugham's purpose in "Christmas Holiday" was to warn the complacent, insular British middle-class of the immense upheavals taking place on the Continent."

About this title

Review:

The modern writer who has influenced me the most. George Orwell"

Book Description:

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war

About this edition

• Publisher: Central Book House / RH
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0099599937
• ISBN 13: 9780099599937
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250