The Painted Veil

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The Painted Veil

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ISBN: 9780099286875
author: W. Somerset Maugham
publishing house: Vintage
publication date: 2009
series: VINTAGE MAUGHAM
binding: Paperback
price: £8.99
number of pages: 240

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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 chinese mainland, 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.

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