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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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The Painted Veil

by W Somerset Maugham

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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.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.

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“The modern writer who has influenced me the most.” – George Orwell
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About the Author

W. Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century’s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was born in Paris but grew up in England and served as a secret agent for the British during World War I. He wrote many novels, including the classics Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge, Cakes and Ale, Christmas Holiday, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and Up at the Villa.
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Erin Naillon, June 1, 2007 (view all comments by Erin Naillon)
This story of a young woman's journey to self-knowledge is a refreshingly pro-feminist tale by a master storyteller, all the more interesting due to the time when it was written (1920s) and the fact that our heroine is no saint, no martyr, but a very human woman who makes mistakes and must pay the price. Told entirely from the point of view of Kitty Fane, a middle-class housewife who has been caught by her husband having an affair with a married man, the story takes us from Kitty's stifling upbringing by a domineering, social-climbing mother, to her hasty marriage to a young man she barely knows, to the affair and its aftermath. The plot is full of surprises and small gems of wisdom.
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ISBN:
9781400034215
Author:
Maugham, W Somerset
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Maugham, W. Somerset
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
China
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Adultery
Subject:
British
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Cholera
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Bacteriologists
Copyright:
1953
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Vintage International
Series Volume:
v. 49
Publication Date:
February 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
806x522x56 42
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