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![]() The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham LITERATURE 2004 PAPER 256 PAGES
Somerset's moving novel of love and betrayal set in 1920s China. It tells the story of a beautiful English woman, her hasty marriage to an arrogant doctor, move to Hong Kong, her love affair and subsequent redemption in a remote Chinese village in the midst of a cholera epidemic. The film, released in 2006, stars Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall starred in the 1934 original.
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