In his story "Winter Cruise," W. Somerset Maugham uses a sharp pen to describe the annual holiday voyage of an English lady aboard a German freighter in the 1920s. He brilliantly caricatures the talkativeness of Miss Reid and, by contrast, the taciturn German crew of the ship. The encounter of such different characters on board guarantees plenty of cheerfulness. The ideal Christmas holiday, does such a thing exist? However lovingly we plan it for family and friends, a broken mustard jar, a train journey home, or the eternally same routine can turn the holidays upside down. Kästner, Pillau and Fontane tell of this.

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