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Up at the Villa

By W. Somerset Maugham

By W. Somerset Maugham

By W. Somerset Maugham

By W. Somerset Maugham

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Apr 11, 2000 | ISBN 9780375724626

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Aug 17, 2011 | ISBN 9780307804778

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    About Up at the Villa

    Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).


    In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.

    On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.  But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.  And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.

    For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion.  Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings.  Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.

    About Up at the Villa

    Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).


    In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.

    On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.  But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.  And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.

    For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion.  Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings.  Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.

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    About W. Somerset Maugham

    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place… More about W. Somerset Maugham

    About W. Somerset Maugham

    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place… More about W. Somerset Maugham

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Historical Romance

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 11, 2000 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375724626

    Category: Historical Fiction | Historical Romance

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 17, 2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307804778
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    A classic novel from a twentieth-century master whose "excessively rare gift of story-telling…is almost the equal of imagination itself."  –The Sunday Times (London)

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