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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.]]> 1941 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:12:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:13:59 -0700 2009 79639468 1541383 3302639 0099284839 9780099284833 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3302639.Up_at_the_Villa 3.25 16 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.]]> 1941 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 08:28:51 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 08:31:09 -0800 2009 74686913 2845026 59551 0099478323 9780099478324 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170532000m/59551.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170532000s/59551.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59551.Up_at_the_Villa 3.60 414 1941 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 20:36:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 20:40:24 -0700 2009 1 61804429 1958151 59551 0099478323 9780099478324 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170532000m/59551.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170532000s/59551.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59551.Up_at_the_Villa 3.60 414 1941 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 14:25:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 14:26:03 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=59551