Maugham, William Somerse – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:05:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Maugham, William Somerse – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Vintage Classics The Painted Veil https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/vintage-classics-the-painted-veil/ Thu, 05 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/vintage-classics-the-painted-veil/ 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.

]]> Vintage Classics The Narrow Corner https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/vintage-classics-the-narrow-corner/ Thu, 05 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/vintage-classics-the-narrow-corner/ On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham’s earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.

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