“[ Up at the Villa has] a striking plot, full of psychological and dramatic potentialities.”

— The New York Times

“[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling … is almost the equal of imagination itself.”

— The Sunday Times (London)

“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. [ Up at the Villa ] is a novel … so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.”

— Saturday Review of Literature

“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.… He was always so entirely there.”

—Gore Vidal

“A treat to read.… Maugham is a catty delight.”

— The Boston Globe TWncOGbyAJTZM9MIvyyESUUDeHKo8zldaYaXOXzuHibyTJp7y1imYEXGd6cqoG/P