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Literature & Fiction

Maugham, Somerset W.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Cosimo Classics

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life".

Classics

Murine Publications LLC

A pure white veil represents the innocent; the title of the book alludes to the loss of innocence. Set in London and Hong-Kong in the 1920s. The book depicts the falling of a beautiful but shallow Kitti Fane. 
When Kitti's husband, a bacteriologist, discovers her affair with another man, he forces her to accompany him to Hong Kong, the heart of a cholera epidemic.

Genre Fiction

Classic Wisdom Reprint

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