Christmas Holiday Author:W. Somerset Maugham A Stranger in Paris — He was a pleasant young man from a well-to-do family./ He took life for granted until he went to Paris for a Christman holiday and met a girl in a bordello - the bitter, enigmatic, lovely Lydia. From her he learned that a woman can love a murderer, that she can willingly enter a life fo sexual degradation, that love can be... more » both torture and ecstasy. "Unsettling, brilliant, thoughtful" (the New York Times)« less