by W. Somerset Maugham · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099478324
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«Up at the Villa» is the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Mary Panton, an English widow, contemplates in a villa on the Florentine hills the marriage proposal she has received. That night, her compassion towards an unknown refugee triggers a spiral of violence. Needing help, she turns to Rowley Flint, a man of dubious reputation, and faces the fact that hiding one's own feelings is tantamount to renouncing life.
Originally published in 1941, this novel is set in a villa on the Florentine hills and belongs to the classic period of W. Somerset Maugham.
For readers of twentieth-century classic fiction seeking a short, intense story set in Italy in the early 1940s.
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
