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. 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. The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.

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: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

Книга для чтения на английском языке. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм (1874-1965) известный английский писатель, врач по образованию. Основные события романа "Узорный покров" (1925) развиваются в китайском городе, куда бороться с эпидемией холеры приезжает бактериолог со своей женой Китти. Любовь героини к помощнику губернатора Гонконга словно наваждение, но после него грядет отрезвление... В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' 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: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

Читателя ждёт путешествие, уводящее за пределы обыденной реальности, полное отчаянных поисков и глубоких прозрений. Пройдя через непростые испытания любовью и предательством, заглянув в глаза смерти, главная героиня обретает понимание себя и приходит к переосмыслению собственной жизни. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. . .

Читателя ждёт путешествие, уводящее за пределы обыденной реальности, полное отчаянных поисков и глубоких прозрений. Пройдя через непростые испытания любовью и предательством, заглянув в глаза смерти, главная героиня обретает понимание себя и приходит к переосмыслению собственной жизни. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. . .

В названии романа Узорный покров, написанного в 1925 году британским классиком Уильямом Сомерсетом Моэмом, получили отражение строки сонета Перси Биши Шелли Lift not the painted veil which those who live сall Life: О, не приподнимай покров узорный, который люди жизнью называют. Читателя ждёт путешествие, уводящее за пределы обыденной реальности, полное отчаянных поисков и глубоких прозрений. Пройдя через непростые испытания любовью и предательством, заглянув в глаза смерти, главная героиня обретает понимание себя и приходит к переосмыслению собственной жизни. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. Адаптация, сокращения и словарь И. Б. Загородней

Stunningly written and cleverly done, Maugham masters the enthralling and shocking world of Machievelli. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.

Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story - they present the enduring views and opinions of this eminent writer.

The latest addition to the best-selling Colour Library series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all Leonardo's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.

Эта кремовая помада от Gucci насыщенного цвета делает губы мягкими и гладкими. Формула обогащена натуральными маслами и обеспечивает идеальное атласное покрытие.

Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of: The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozenand Jane. Recommended for older readers. Retold by John Milne.

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.

Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true mйtier. These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvanizing as literature and wonderfully entertaining. In the adventures of his alter ego Ashenden, a writer who (like Maugham himself) turned secret agent in World War I, as well as in stories set in such far-flung locales as South Pacific islands and colonial outposts in Southeast Asia, Maugham brings his characters vividly to life, and their humanity is more convincing for the author's merciless exposure of their flaws and failures. Whether the chasms of misunderstanding he plumbs are those between colonizers and natives, between a missionary and a prostitute, or between a poetry-writing woman and her uncomprehending husband, Maugham brilliantly displays his irony, his wit, and his genius in the art of storytelling.

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