Up at the Villa

Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught among three men her suitor, her onenight stand, and her confidant. A fastpaced story, Up at the Villa incorporates elements of the crime and suspense novel.

After she has dropped him off, Mary drives back home. On her way, although it is late at night, she stops to have a look at the scenery. She senses someone nearby and learns that it is Karl Richter, the fiddler from the restaurant, who is also admiring the view. They begin to talk, and Mary learns that he is a 23yearold Austrian art student who has fled his country because of Nazi persecution. Without a passport or documents, he is staying as an illegal immigrant in a rented room near the Leonards villa.Mary takes pity on Richter, and invites him to look at the paintings in the villa. Learning he had gone without dinner, Mary fixes him some bacon and eggs. They have wine with their improvised meal. They end up in bed. ........

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