Christmas Holiday Author:W. Somerset Maugham A novel that explores two souls capsized by compassion--and the confusion that engulfed a generation in the days between the Great Wars. Charley Mason is a well-to-do, well-mannered, mildly cultured and quite exceptionally charming young Englishman who spends a Chrismas holiday in Paris. He meets a tragically self-destructive woman whose world... more » fell apart after the revolution of 1917.« less