Catalina
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- June 1, 2001
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-928684-4
- GTIN
- 9780099286844
- Weight, g
- 181
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.
The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.