CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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.
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