Author(s): Maugham, W. Somerset,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/04/2001,
Pagination: 240 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage Classics,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dimensions: 199 x 132 x 15mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780099286875

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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.