# The Painted Veil

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- Book: [The Painted Veil](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-painted-veil) ([The Painted Veil.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-painted-veil.md))
- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-687-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2009-12-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.