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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780099286875
- Categories BX, BXOS, Classics and Literary, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, Literary Fiction, WBD
- Author(s) W. Somerset Maugham
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Pages 240
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.0cm x 2.0cm x 19.6cm
- Weight 0.25 kg
product description
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.
