The Painted Veil
Author: Maugham, W Somerset
ISBN: 9780099286875
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 199mm x 131mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
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.
ISBN: 9780099286875
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 199mm x 131mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
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.
