The Painted Veil
- ISBN-10
- 0140185992
- ISBN-13
- 9780140185997
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1925
- Publisher
- G. H. Doran
- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
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 Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds charming, attractive and exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages.
