# Catalina

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- Book: [Catalina](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/catalina) ([Catalina.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/catalina.md))
- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-684-4
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2010-06-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.