The Painted Veil. W. Somerset Maugham. George H. Doran Co., New York (1925). First edition
The Painted Veil. W. Somerset Maugham. George H. Doran Co., New York (1925). First edition. Original dust jacket.Maugham’s famous Hong Kong set novel of adultery and cholera. “The story of Kitty Garstin - beautiful, thoughtless Kitty whose world was her oyster and who married her husband because she could not bear that her younger sister should be married before her. Then came tragedy and the slow birth of Kitty’s soul in the agony and the exaltation that is attendant upon all birth.” -- source link
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