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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 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