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Does anyone read Somerset Maugham anymore? From the 1920s to the 1950s he was the most respected popular novelist in the world, or the most popular respected novelist (the praise was always tempered with quotation marks). He traveled the world to the haunts of British expatriates; his stories, whether set in Singapore or Italy, often dealt with the choice between prudent and passionate romance. He knew his characters; he had a deep knowledge of shallow people. Philip Haas Up at the Villa is based on Maugham s novella about a group of British expats in Florence, enjoying their last days of mannered sloth before the outbreak of World War II. It is not the same story that Franco Zeffirelli told in his 1999 movie Tea With Mussolini, but his characters and these characters would have known each other by name.

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