• Mary drove through the silent streets of Florence, along the road by which she had come, and then up the hill on the top of which was the villa.
  • In Up at the Villa, Maugham tells a story about a woman widowed from an unsatisfying marriage and who makes a careless mistake while on holiday in Florence...
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  • Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught among three men: her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant.
  • Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.
  • Here is a quick description and cover image of book Up at the Villa written by W. Somerset Maugham which was published in 1941–.
  • At the back of her mind was a faint disinclination to arrive, for really she would have much preferred to dine by herself on the terrace of the villa.
  • Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.
  • William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten.
  • Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham / History & Fiction have rating 4 out of 5 / Based on32 votes.
  • Decades of holidaying on Capri and then living at his sumptuously-located villa in the south of France gave Maugham a profound feel for the physical and...
  • The Signora has to be in the Villa Bolognese at one and it’s twelve already.”.