Christmas Holiday (novel)
1939 novel
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Christmas Holiday is a novel by the British writer Somerset Maugham, first published in 1939 by Heinemann. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War a naïve young Englishman travels to Paris to broaden his mind. There he meets a White Russian émigré Lydia, now working as a prostitute. She tells him both of the death of her father during the Russian Revolution and her subsequent marriage in Paris to a man who then murdered his own friend. Despite knowing of his guilt she secretly sends money to him on the prison island in French Guiana because she loves him.[1] The novel was reissued as a Bantam paperback in December 1955 under a new title, Stranger in Paris.
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| Author | Somerset Maugham |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
| Publication date | 1939 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Film adaptation
In 1944 it was adapted into the American film of the same title often classified as a film noir, directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.[2][3] While the original story takes place in pre-war Europe, the adaptation shifts the setting to wartime New Orleans in Louisiana.
