Managerial Psychology

WAS Maugham, holidays Christmas (1956)

For the curious: the cover price was 250 pounds, about 13 euro cents.

From the inside cover:

William Somerset Maugham is one of the foreign writers who have won the sympathy of most Italian readers, and certainly his art so eclectic and so refined, while genuinely popular tone, is what should be better to capture an audience like ours, cut the best romantic school. With the Christmas holidays Maugham returned to the art from the strong hues realistic drama that cultivated in the early days of his career as a novelist, when he wrote the famous Bondage . But he came back hand relieved by the long experience of irony made in recent years at the expense of British society: the author tells the story of three wretched human scum who came into contact, for a fatal combination of circumstances, with a fine English education which During the Christmas holidays, he visited Paris for the first time. A new view of the slums of Paris is revealed in the eyes of the reader who will draw from these pages, nobly human and moral, a deeper experience of life. Christmas holiday is the work of perfect artistic maturity of Maugham and was judged by many critics as his masterpiece.