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The Painted Veil

Author
William Somerset Maugham
Language
English
Length
244 pages
ISBN
9781787363656
Published
14 February 2022
Imprint
Sovereign
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  • oriental
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The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham is a story about a woman named Kitty, who marries Walter Fane so that she can live out her fantasies of being a lady in a grand household and meet wealthy people. The marriage to Walter Fane only lasts three years because he begins to cheat on her. Kitty leaves him for Shanghai, China to work as a doctor with the Red Cross Society.

Author

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) wrote Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and a famous shelf of stories from the South Seas and the drawing room. A doctor by training, he observed with a cool, professional eye: desire, failure, and the cost of a vocation. With 35 titles in our catalogue, Maugham remains the English novelist of worldly intelligence — never sentimental, always readable.

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