The Painted Veil Maugham W. Somerset
The Painted Veil Maugham W. Somerset Breath-taking and a little magical, The Painted Veil by British author W. Set in both England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil follows Kitty Garstin,…
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The Painted Veil Maugham W. Somerset
Breath-taking and a little magical, The Painted Veil by British author W. Set in both England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil follows Kitty Garstin, a beautiful upper-class socialite whose life is irrevocably changed by her own doing. Somerset Maugham is a powerful novel about the disillusionment of life.
She must accompany him to the small village of Mei-tan-fu where an outbreak of cholera is ravaging its inhabitants, or he will submit a petition for divorce-a very public, humiliating divorce. When she is caught in a tumultuous affair by her husband Walter Fane, a bacteriologist who moves them to Hong Kong for his work, Kitty is given an ultimatum. Heartbroken to learn her paramour refuses to leave his own wife, Kitty has no choice but to leave with Walter.
Though Kitty is bitter and afraid of the cholera-infested Mei-tan-fu at first, slowly she realizes the
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