Christmas Holiday W. Somerset Maugham

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Zusammenfassung

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest friends.

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Christmas Holiday W. Somerset Maugham

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war.

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 jaunt 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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Contrasts the complacency of prewar Britain with the nastiness of what was brewing on the Continent. It remains effortlessly readable * The Times *
Brilliant * New York Times *
One reads it with a feeling of increasing respect for his mastery of the trade. One has the same delight as in watching a first-class cabinet-maker cutting dovetails -- Evelyn Waugh

Über W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

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Sku

GOR001783450

ISBN 13

9780099286851

ISBN 10

0099286858

Titel

Christmas Holiday W. Somerset Maugham

Autor

W. Somerset Maugham

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

20010601

Anzahl der Seiten

272

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