The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham is a story about a woman named Kitty, who marries Walter Fane so that she can live out her fantasies of being a lady in a grand household and meet wealthy people. The marriage to Walter Fane only lasts three years because he begins to cheat on her. Kitty leaves him for Shanghai, China to work as a doctor with the Red Cross Society.
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- THE PAINTED VEIL