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- 2009
- year of publication
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- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- vintage_digital
- ISBN-13
- 978-14-0907-933-0
- EAN
- 9781409079330
- Publication date
- 2009-10-06
- Book
- Christmas Holiday · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
W Somerset Maugham's classic coming-of-age Christmas tale of one man's descent into Paris' dark side. 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 ‘glorious, wild and romantic’ Christmas 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. 'Effortlessly readable' The Times
