Christmas Holiday - Brossura

Maugham, W. Somerset

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099286858 ISBN 13: 9780099286851

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2001

Riassunto

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. Discover a Christmas Holiday with a difference.
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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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

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

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099286858
• ISBN 13: 9780099286851
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272