# Christmas Holiday

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- Book: [Christmas Holiday](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/christmas-holiday) ([Christmas Holiday.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/christmas-holiday.md))
- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-685-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2010-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.