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The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham (Author)

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • 240 Page / Published 2009-12-01
  • Category: Fiction , Modern & contemporary fiction ,
  • ISBN: 9780099286875
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.....

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Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.