# 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: 978-17-8487-804-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2022-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' 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... VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.