The Painted Veil

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DESCRIPTION : Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attr active and exciting Charles Townsend. 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...First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780099286875 BY (AUTHOR) Maugham, W. Somerset PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing PUBLICATION DATE : April 05, 2001 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Vintage Classics LANGUAGE : English AGE : Tertiary Education PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm WEIGHT : 170 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more