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The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).
46,447 ratings4,595 reviews. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society ...
This is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter Fane (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance ...
4 de mar. de 2021 · About this eBook. Author. Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Title. The Painted Veil. Credits. Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Language.
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Painted Veil" is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter...
20 de dic. de 2006 · 电影讲述了20年代一对年轻的英国夫妇来到中国乡村生活的故事，在这美丽却凶险的环境中，他们经历了在其英国家乡舒适生活中绝对无法想象和体验的情感波澜，并领悟到了爱与奉献的真谛。. 故事以女主角吉蒂开篇，为了逃离20年代伦敦浮华却又空虚的社交圈 ...
I think that "The Painted Veil" is a strong period drama based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham about love, relationships and adultery. There´s solid acting from Naomi ...
