{"title":"Somerset W. Maugham","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-painted-veil-paperback-1","title":"The Painted Veil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.\" -Kitty, The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham is a romance set in England and Hong Kong. The title refers to the first line of a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley: \"Lift not the painted veil which those who live \/ Call Life.\" The author delves deep into the psyche of a mismatched married couple, Kitty and Walter, dealing with affairs and adultery. After Kitty's affair is discovered, Walter gives her the ultimatum of accompanying him to cholera-stricken mainland China or enduring a publicly humiliating divorce. This is just a glimpse of a page-turning novel filled with human conflict that any reader will want to add to their personal library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101649899743,"sku":"9781646797011","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iHt83vOmfS9781646797011.webp?v=1781071898"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/somerset-w-maugham.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}