The Painted VeilSet in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive. |
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... stories , essays and travel books that Maugham wrote in a long and prolific life . Even his autobiography , he tells us in its opening words , is not an autobiography , and a phrase from the beginning of that book sheds some light on ...
... stories , essays and travel books that Maugham wrote in a long and prolific life . Even his autobiography , he tells us in its opening words , is not an autobiography , and a phrase from the beginning of that book sheds some light on ...
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... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or - novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who ... stories attribute to him can be seen as part of a role he is playing . " Tra - la - la - la , " Maugham is supposed ...
... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or - novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who ... stories attribute to him can be seen as part of a role he is playing . " Tra - la - la - la , " Maugham is supposed ...
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... stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so close to fiction that he could include them , much later , among his Complete Short Stories ...
... stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so close to fiction that he could include them , much later , among his Complete Short Stories ...
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