The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
"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.)
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| Author | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 |
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| Title | The Painted Veil |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Veil_(novel) |
| Credits | Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Adultery -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Married people -- Fiction |
| Subject | China -- Fiction |
| Subject | Cholera -- Fiction |
| Subject | British -- China -- Fiction |
| Subject | Bacteriologists -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 64682 |
| Release Date | Mar 4, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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