Book Details
"Reveals many of Maugham's strengths: an understanding of women, meticulous craftsmanship and raw emotion'" (Daily Mail)"A work of art" (Spectator)"An expert craftsman... His style is sharp, quick, subdued, casual" (New York Times)
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.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Maugham, W. Somerset
- ISBN13 9780099286875
- ISBN10 0099286874
- Collection INGLES
- Published 2022
- Language English
The Painted Veil
- Author W. Somerset Maugham
- Publisher VINTAGE
- ISBN 9780099286875
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