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The Painted Veil

"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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love"--Publisher website (February 2007).

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  • "Painted Veil"
  • "Ai de zhen di"
  • "Painted veil"@it
  • "Painted veil"
  • "Painted veil altogether"@it
  • "Collected edition of the works"
  • "Stambul cinta"
  • "The painted veil"@it

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  • "Een bacterioloog dwingt zijn vrouw met hem naar Hongkong te vertrekken, waar hij een cholera-epidemie moet bestrijden."
  • "Walter Fane, ahli bakteri yang bekerja di Hongkong, memberikan dua pilihan kepada Kitty, istrinya yang ketahuan berselingkuh: diceraikan dan menanggung malu, atau ikut dengannya ke Cina Selatan, ke sebuah wilayah yang sedang terjangkit wabah kolera dan sedikit sekali orang yang pulang dalam keadaan hidup. Karena tak sanggup menanggung malu, Kitty pun bersedia ikut dengan suaminya."
  • ""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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love"--Publisher website (February 2007)."@en
  • "Ben shu yi zhu ren gong kai di he ta de zhang fu yi ji zong du zhu li cha li. tang sen san ren de ai qing jiu ge wei xian suo, yi ying guo zhi min di xiang gang ji zhong guo mou cheng shi wei bei jing, gou hua le xing xing se se ying guo ren de xing xiang ; miao xie le 30 nian dai zhong guo de sheng huo feng mao."
  • "Set in the 1920s. A young English couple consisting of Walter, a middle class doctor, and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along as an act of vengeance, but their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose."@en
  • "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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love."@en
  • "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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love."
  • ""Peu de mondes semblent aussi éloignés l'un de l'autre que ceux de Somerset Maugham et de George Orwell. On découvre pourtant avec surprise dans un essai de l'auteur de 1984 qu'il admirait " immensément " Maugham pour son " talent à raconter une histoire sans la moindre fioriture ". Au lecteur de se laisser séduire par une invraisemblable histoire d'amour dans le Hong-Kong de la grande époque coloniale anglaise avec adultère, épidémie, général chinois, bonnes sœurs ... Ingrédients que Maugham mélange avec un art consommé du récit et une maîtrise raffinée du " bel ouvrage ""
  • "A story about a young man's adventures in China, translated into French."@en
  • "Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic."@en
  • "Dans le Hong Kong de l'époque coloniale anglaise, une histoire d'amour avec adultère, épidémie, général chinois, bonnes soeurs..."
  • "Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds charming, attractive and exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages."@en
  • "Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds charming, attractive and exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages."
  • "Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend, a married man, is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to accompany him to his new post amid a raging cholera epidemic."@en
  • "The painted veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive. 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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love."
  • "Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance."@en
  • "Kitty Garstin, joven y bella londinense, cumple sus veinticinco años sin haber alcanzado el objetivo para el que fue educada por su madre: hacer una buena boda. Por temor a que su hermana menor se case antes que ella, contrae matrimonio con un bacteriólogo, un hombre inteligente, educado y moralmente intachable, que la adora pero de quien no está enamorada. Después de la boda, se trasladan a Hong Kong, donde Kitty se enamora de Charlie Towsend, un inglés apuesto y frívolo de la colonia extranjera, con quien será infiel a su marido. Descubiertas sus relaciones adúlteras, y traicionada por Charlie, se verá obligada a seguir a su marido a una zona del interior de China afectada por el cólera. Kitty, incapaz de obtener el perdón de su marido, se entrega a labores humanitarias. El contacto con la muerte y con una realidad dura y penosa harán de ella una persona nueva."
  • "A story of the beautiful but love-starve Kitty Fane who is forced to accompany her husband to the heart of a cholera epidemic. She is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love."
  • "Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, whom she finds charming, attractive and exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance. This is the story of a woman's spiritual awakening."@en
  • "First published, Heinemann, 1925."@en
  • "Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920's, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. Whan her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic."@en
  • "Kitty Fane is lovely but shallow, and when her bacteriologist husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic hoping she will die. Bitterly unhappy, Kitty is compelled both by the desolation around her and by her awakening conscience to re-assess her life, past and present."@en
  • "When in the 1920s Kitty Fane's 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 she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love."@en

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  • "Scripts"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Adaptations"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "English fiction"@en
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Den brokiga vävnaden"@sv
  • "Brogede slør"@da
  • "The Painted Veil"
  • "The Painted Veil"@en
  • "La Passe dangereuse, roman. Texte français de Mme E. R. Blanchet. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française"
  • "La Passe dangereuse"
  • "The painted veil : forgiveness comes at a price/ Naomi Watts; Edward Norton ... Based on the novel by W.Somerset Maugham. Screenplay by Ron Nyswaner. Directed by John Curran"
  • "Det farvede slør"
  • "Malowany welon : : The painted veil"
  • "Razrisovannai︠a︡ vualʹ"
  • "The painted veil = stambul cinta"
  • "El Velo pintado : aventura en Tching-Yen"
  • "Renkli peçe"
  • "A színes fátyol : [regény]"@hu
  • "Mian sha = The painted veil"
  • "Det brogede slør / (Omsl.: Mogens Poulsen)"@da
  • "El velo pintado; aventura en Tching-Yen"
  • "Ai de zhen di"
  • "Színes fátyol : regény"@hu
  • "The painted veil"
  • "The painted veil"@en
  • "The painted veil"@es
  • "面纱 = The painted veil"
  • "Daz̆ytas vualis. Romanas; autoriui leidus, is̆ anglu kalbos verté Stepas Zobarksas"
  • "El velo pintado = The painted veil"
  • "Dažytas vualis, romans"
  • "Painted veil"@en
  • "The painted Veil"
  • "Cai se de mian sha"
  • "Il velo dipinto : romanzo"
  • "La Passe dangereuse. Texte français de Mme Emile-Robert Blanchet"
  • "The painted veil : by W. Somerst Maugham"@en
  • "El velo pintado = The painted veil : [novela] / Tr. por Edit. Ercilla"@es
  • "De bonte sluier"
  • "彩色的面紗"
  • "Kirjava huntu; romaani"
  • "Den brokiga vaevnaden"
  • "Разрисованная вуаль"
  • "A szines fátyol"
  • "Il velo dipinto : romanzo seguito da tre racconti"
  • "The Painted Veil LP"@en
  • "Il velo dipinto = The painted veil : romanzo"@it
  • "La Passe dangereuse : [roman]"
  • "The painted veil : [novel]"
  • "El velo pintado : aventura en Tching-Yen"@es
  • "El velo pintado ("The painted veil")"
  • "La passe dangereuse"
  • "La passe dangereuse"@en
  • "Pisani pajčolan : roman"
  • "Der bunte Schleier, Roman"
  • "al-Khāṭi'ah"
  • "A színes fátyol"
  • "The Painted Veil. [Second printing.]"@en
  • "La passe dangereuse : [roman]"
  • "The Painted veil"
  • "The Painted veil"@en
  • "Il velo dipinto : romanzo ; seguito da tre racconti"
  • "La Passe dangereuse : ["the Painted veil"]. Texte français de Mme E. [Émile]-R. Blanchet"
  • "Il velo dipinto"@it
  • "Il velo dipinto"
  • "The painted veil : a novel"
  • "愛的眞諦"
  • "La passe dangereuse : Roman"
  • "面纱"
  • "Det brogede Slør"@da
  • "Kirjava huntu : romaani"
  • "Kirjava huntu : romaani"@fi
  • "La passe dangeureuse"
  • "Узорный покров : роман ; Рассказы"
  • "Malowany welon"@pl
  • "Malowany welon"
  • "Det brogede slør"@da
  • "Det brogede slør"
  • "Kirjava huntu"@fi
  • "Der bunte Schleier Roman"
  • "The peinted veil"
  • "El Velo pintado"
  • "La Passe dangereuse : ["the Painted veil". Texte français de Mme Émile R. Blanchet.]"
  • "Painted Veil"
  • "Ai ti chen ti"
  • "Der bunte Schleier"
  • "La Passe dangereuse Texte français de madame E.-R. Blanchet"
  • "al-Khāṭiʼah"
  • "Il velo dipinto : racconti"@it
  • "El velo pintado"
  • "El velo pintado"@es
  • "愛的真諦"
  • "O veu pintado"@pt
  • "彩色的面纱"
  • "Der bunte Schleier : roman"
  • "O véu pintado"
  • ""The PAINTED veil""
  • "Kitti"
  • "Kitti = The painted veil"
  • "La Passe dangereuse... : [Texte français de Mme Émile-R. Blanchet.]"
  • "A szines [!színes] fátyol"@hu
  • "La Passe dangereuse. Texte français"
  • "Uzornyĭ pokrov : roman ; Rasskazy"
  • "THE PAINTED VEIL"
  • "Mian sha"
  • "Der bunte Schleier : Roman"

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