Veil (collected Works of Maugham)
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"The Veil (Collected Works of Maugham)" is the author's representative novel. According to the author, this is a novel that starts from a story rather than a character; the title of the book refers to Shelley's poem "Don't Lift This Colorful Veil": "Don't lift this colorful veil, all living beings call it life..." In the 1920s, the beautiful and vain Katie came to this Eastern colony with her husband Walter, a bacteriologist in the Hong Kong government. Desperate for love, she fell madly in love with the seemingly romantic Assistant Colonial Secretary Charlie Townsend. After their affair was exposed, Katie discovered that her tall and handsome lover was just a selfish and vain villain. In despair, she followed her husband to practice medicine in a cholera-ravaged area. Forced by her awakening conscience, she went through the painful process of turning a cocoon into a butterfly, re-examining her life path and learning how to love...
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