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Christmas Holiday - Somerset Maugham

Description: ISBN 0099286858 / Author: Somerset Maugham / Genre: Classic Literature / 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 ... more

Christmas Holiday - Somerset Maugham ... 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.

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	Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 009928685 Pages: 256, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Vintage - Books/Subj ...	£ 5.99	Postage & Packaging: £ 2.75 Availability: refer to shop website
	Format: hardback, Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, ISBN: 043445611X Pages: 289, Hardcover, William Heinemann Ltd - Books/Subjects/Fic ...	£ 9.86	Postage & Packaging: £ 2.75 Availability: refer to shop website

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