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Author : William Somerset Maugham
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-13
The Painted Veil written by William Somerset Maugham and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.
The Painted Veil
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-07-21
The Painted Veil written by W. Somerset Maugham and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21 with Fiction categories.
The novel is set in the 1920s in England and Hong Kong and tells the story of the beautiful but loveless Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her extramarital affair, he forces her to accompany him to the epicenter of a cholera outbreak. She is prompted by her awakening personality to reassess her life and learn how to love after being stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to achieve in Hong Kong. The title of this novel alludes to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life." "The Painted Veil" is a beautifully written testament to the human capacity to change, grow, and forgive.
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Author : William Somerset Maugham
language : en
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Release Date : 1989
The Painted Veil written by William Somerset Maugham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Adultery categories.
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Author : William Somerset Maugham
language : en
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Release Date : 1900*
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-01-17
The Painted Veil written by W. Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-17 with categories.
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love
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Author : Raymond Toole-Stott Collection of W. Somerset Maugham (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
language : en
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Release Date : 1925
The Painted Veil written by Raymond Toole-Stott Collection of W. Somerset Maugham (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with China categories.
The Painted Veil 1925 Novel By
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-16
The Painted Veil 1925 Novel By written by W. Somerset Maugham and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-16 with categories.
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." The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. In the Preface to his book, Maugham tells how originally the main characters were called Lane not Fane but a couple of that name in Hong Kong successfully sued the magazine publishers of the initial serialised version for libel and won 250. To avoid similar problems after A. G. M. Fletcher, the then Assistant Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong, also threatened legal action, the name of the colony was changed to Tching-Yen.[2] Later editions reverted to Hong Kong but the name Fane was kept for all editions. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 - March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised in the United Kingdom in eight parts in Nash's Magazine Somerset Maugham uses a third-person - limited, point of view in this story, where Kitty is the Focal character. Kitty Garstin, a very pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself at cotillions and social events - during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her. By age 25, Kitty has flirted with - and declined the marriage proposals of - dozens of suitors. Her mother, convinced that her eldest daughter has "missed her market," urges Kitty to settle for the rather "odd" Walter Fane, a bacteriologist and M.D., who is madly in love with Kitty. In a panic that her much younger - and less attractive - sister, Doris, will upstage her by marrying first, Kitty consents to Walter's ardent marriage proposition with the words, "I suppose so." Shortly before Doris's much grander wedding, Kitty and Walter depart as newlyweds to his post in Hong Kong."
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Author : W. Somerset W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-04-18
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Kitty Fane is a beautiful, vain, upper-class British woman unhappily married to Walter Fane, a bacteriologist working in Hong Kong. She is conducting an affair with Charles Townsend, the Assistant Colonial Secretary, and the two are in her room when the knobs to her door mysteriously turn from the outside.She worries that her husband may have discovered her affair, but then she recalls their loveless match. She married Walter after several years of unsuccessfully seeking a match who would win her mother's approval; eventually, her homely younger sister Doris was about to be married, and Kitty hastily accepted Walter's proposal of marriage so that she would not be single at her little sister's wedding. The outgoing Kitty and the reserved Walter make a horrible match.Walter is silent and pale for several days, and then gives Kitty an ultimatum. She will accompany him on his expedition to fight a cholera epidemic in Mei-tan-fu, a city in southern China, or he will bring her to court for her infidelity. Kitty is horrified, and certain that the cholera epidemic will mean her death. Walter gives her another out: if Charles agrees to marry her, he will allow her to divorce him and she can stay in Hong Kong. Kitty, delighted that she will finally get the chance to be with her beloved Charles, immediately confronts her lover with this proposal. Charles refuses to divorce his wife Dorothy, and Kitty, heartbroken, agrees to go with Walter to Mei-tan-fu.
A True Novel
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Author : Minae Mizumura
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2013-11-12
A True Novel written by Minae Mizumura and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Fiction categories.
A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
Writer S Notebook
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1991-10-03
Writer S Notebook written by W. Somerset Maugham and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-03 with categories.
From 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings.