Veil

Collected Works of Maugham: Veil is the author's representative novel. According to the author's own account, this is a novel that originates from stories, not characters. The title of the book is Shelley's poem Uncover the Colorful Veil: "e;Uncover the Colorful Veil. All living beings call it life..."e; In the 1920s, beautiful and vain Katie brought Walter, husband of bacteriologist, the Hong Kong government, to this eastern colony. Desperate for love, she fell madly in love with Charlie Townsend, assistant secretary of political affairs. After their affair was revealed, Katie realized that her tall and handsome lover was just a selfish and vain little man. In desperation, she followed her husband to practice medicine in the cholera epidemic area. Under the pressure of awakening conscience, she went through the painful process of confession, re-examining her life path and learned how to love...