We will not spoil for the reader the surprises that make this a compelling novel. Maugham studied medicine, later becoming a surgeon. The title presumably refers to the veil of illusion that often hides the truth we feel about ourselves. Somerset Maugham (18741964) was a British novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The inner thoughts of the several characters-especially Kitty-are thoroughly painted by Maugham. 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, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening. The story is one of love, of a search for meaning of life, of forgiveness, and of personal growth and change. Fane decides that she must accompany him to a small village, deep within China, where cholera is rampant otherwise, he will reveal the betrayal, with grave consequences for all. She soon commits adultery with a British official in Hong Kong, where they have relocated. She agrees to marry him only because she wishes to beat her sister to the altar. Fane, falls in love with the beautiful, but vain and foolish, Kitty Garstin. A committed, principled, epidemiologist, Dr. This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera -ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Painted Veil
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