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The painted veil

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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 Veilis a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

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Vintage Digital
1409075516 / 9781409075516
eBook (EPUB)
823.912
05/04/2001
England
English
186 pages
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