This edition includes a biographical afterword. Somerset Maugham (2006, Trade at the best. Beautiful and deeply affecting, “The Painted Veil” is a thought-provoking study of the ability of people to change, grow, and learn how to love deeply. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage International Ser.: The Painted Veil by W.
The experience utterly transforms Kitty and she begins to take responsibility for her mistakes and understand her shortcomings. In writing The Painted Veil, he decided to bring this story into a modern setting and change the ending.
Walter is not as clueless about her behavior as Kitty would like to believe, and eventually rejected by her selfish lover, he has her travel with him to mainland China to help during a dangerous cholera epidemic. Maugham was intrigued by the idea of a jilted husband who forced his wife into a dangerous situation, and what the woman might experience there. Kitty travels to Tching-Yen with her new husband, where he is posted as a government scientist, and Kitty soon falls in love with her husband’s colleague, the handsome and charming Charlie Townsend. Kitty agrees to marry Walter not because she loves him, but because she fears being upstaged by her younger sister. This is a story about a fizgig Kitty who gets married to. “The Painted Veil” tells the story of the lovely and superficial Kitty Garstin and her unhappy marriage to Walter Fane, a quiet and honorable man. Somerset Maugham Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Fiction - 256 pages 79 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. The Painted Veil is a novel by the English writer William Somerset Maugham, published in 1925.
First serialized in 1924 and published as a complete novel in 1925, “The Painted Veil” is the powerful novel of transgression and redemption by popular and prolific British author W.
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