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The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (2002, Paperback) 
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (2002, Paperback)

 
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (2002, Paperback)

Publisher: Replica Books
Publication Date: 2002-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0735101949
ISBN-13: 9780735101944
Product ID: EPID1629517
Description: Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and dea...
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Synopsis
Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death, Kitty begins to come to self-realization, and also learns how to love her husband. Unfortunately for both of them, Kitty's realizations come too late.

Details
Publication Date:2002-06-01

Size
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.

Industry Reviews
"'The Painted Veil' with its sadness, its moral tension, its irony and compassion, its building evocations of lust and terror and remorse, is a work of art."
Britten

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