Up at the Villa

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"[Maugham is] a great artist a genius." —Theodore Dreiser
A classic novel from the twentieth-century master W. Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa portrays a wealthy young Englishwoman who finds herselfv,confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older, 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 Mary's 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 seel< 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.
W. Somerset Maugham... Tovább

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FICTION/LITERATURE
"[Maugham is] a great artist a genius." —Theodore Dreiser
A classic novel from the twentieth-century master W. Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa portrays a wealthy young Englishwoman who finds herselfv,confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older, 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 Mary's 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 seel< 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.
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century's most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was born in Paris but grew up in England and served as a secret agent for the British during World War I. He wrote many novels, including the classics Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, Cakes and Ale, Christmas Holiday, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and Up at the Villa. Vissza