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The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham - Vintage Deco collection (Vintage Classics), 240 pages: a woman's reckoning with betrayal and redemption in 1920s Hong Kong and China.
The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1925, tells the story of Kitty Fane, a beautiful but shallow young woman who marries Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, and follows him to Hong Kong. Bored and unfulfilled in her marriage, Kitty begins a passionate affair with the charming colonial official Charles Townsend. When Walter discovers her infidelity, he exacts a strange and terrible revenge: he takes her with him into a remote region of inland China, in the grip of a raging cholera epidemic. Stripped of her old certainties and surrounded by suffering, Kitty is forced to confront herself and slowly begins to change. A classic of 1920s English literature, this edition is part of the Vintage Deco collection (Vintage Classics), marking the decade one hundred years on. Vintage Publishing, 240 pages.
