Veil (selected Works of Somerset Maugham)
by H
About This Novel
Kitty, a beautiful but vain British woman, accepts the proposal of Walter Fane, a withdrawn doctor, in order to avoid becoming an old girl. She left London's flashy and empty social circle and followed Walter to the mysterious Eastern colony - Hong Kong. Kitty, who is dissatisfied with her marriage, secretly has an affair with Charlie Tongson, the assistant chief secretary of Hong Kong who shakes her heart. After discovering his wife's infidelity, Walter made a desperate move and began his strange and terrifying revenge plan: taking Kitty to the distant mainland of China to quell a cholera epidemic that was spreading crazily... "The Veil" is a novel by Maugham published in 1925, with Hong Kong and mainland China as the background of the story. The author uses extremely compassionate emotional care to gain insight into the subtleties of human nature. In his writing, the veils of love, human nature and even the times are all revealed one by one.
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