The Painted Veil
Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Veil_(novel) Release date is 2021-03-04
Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
"The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novel published in 1925. When a frivolous young woman enters a loveless marriage and begins an affair in Hong Kong, her betrayed husband presents her with a devastating choice: accompany him to a cholera-ravaged village in mainland China or face public divorce. Forced into a dangerous epidemic zone, she embarks on an unexpected journey of self-discovery among French nuns and suffering villagers, confronting her own shallow nature and witnessing her husband's hidden depths. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Adultery -- Fiction Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Married people -- Fiction China -- Fiction Cholera -- Fiction British -- China -- Fiction Bacteriologists -- Fiction
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The Painted Veil - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Veil_(novel) Release date is 2021-03-04
Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
"The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novel published in 1925. When a frivolous young woman enters a loveless marriage and begins an affair in Hong Kong, her betrayed husband presents her with a devastating choice: accompany him to a cholera-ravaged village in mainland China or face public divorce. Forced into a dangerous epidemic zone, she embarks on an unexpected journey of self-discovery among French nuns and suffering villagers, confronting her own shallow nature and witnessing her husband's hidden depths. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Adultery -- Fiction Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Married people -- Fiction China -- Fiction Cholera -- Fiction British -- China -- Fiction Bacteriologists -- Fiction
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