The Painted Veil
Book formats
-
Paperback 2 348руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- April 5, 2001
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-928687-5
- GTIN
- 9780099286875
- Weight, g
- 170
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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, attractive 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.