Catalina
Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
ISBN: 9780099286844
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Jul 2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
'The modern writer who has influenced me the most' George Orwell
Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.
The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
ISBN: 9780099286844
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Jul 2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
'The modern writer who has influenced me the most' George Orwell
Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.
The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
