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Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 5 April 2001 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 240 pages
199 x 132 x 15 | 176g
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.
