Christmas Holiday - Maugham, W Somerset
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Charley Mason, a nice young Englishman from a responsible, privileged home, goes to Paris for a five-day Christmas holiday. But instead of seeing the sights, he winds up involved with the Paris underworld, where he hears the stories of Robert Berger, a petty thief and convicted murderer, and meets Lydia, a Russian prostitute, and the gaunt fanatical revolutionary, Simon. After his adventures take him to French Guinea and the Devil's Island prison colony, Charley will begin to question everything he once believed about himself. Eventually, Charley Mason returns to his comfortable home in London…mehr

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Charley Mason, a nice young Englishman from a responsible, privileged home, goes to Paris for a five-day Christmas holiday. But instead of seeing the sights, he winds up involved with the Paris underworld, where he hears the stories of Robert Berger, a petty thief and convicted murderer, and meets Lydia, a Russian prostitute, and the gaunt fanatical revolutionary, Simon. After his adventures take him to French Guinea and the Devil's Island prison colony, Charley will begin to question everything he once believed about himself. Eventually, Charley Mason returns to his comfortable home in London -- but he returns irrevocably changed, with all of his previous assumptions and beliefs shattered.
For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless, fatherless. And for reasons that elude Charley, Lydia pines for a man half a world away--a dope dealer and murderer whose sins Lydia seeks to absolve through her own self- destruction. Haunting, erotic, deeply effecting, Christmas Holiday explores two souls capsized by compassion--and the confusion that engulfed a generation in the days between the Great Wars.
Autorenporträt
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century's most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was born in Paris but grew up in England and served as a secret agent for the British during World War I. He wrote many novels, including the classics Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, Cakes and Ale, Christmas Holiday, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and Up at the Villa.