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   Who wrote The Painted Veil?

   • The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley 's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).

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   Is the Painted Veil based on a true story?

   • The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles.

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   What e-book is used in the Painted Veil?

   • This study guide uses the Vintage e-book edition. Plot Summary The Painted Veil is set in the 1920s in British colonial Hong Kong and begins with Kitty Fane’s discovery that her husband, Walter, knows about her affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Charles Townsend.

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   When was the Painted Veil filmed?

   • Norton considered The Painted Veil to be in the spirit of such films as Out of Africa (1985) and The English Patient (1996), seeing it as "rooted in really looking at the way that men and women hurt each other". Director John Curran suggested setting the film during 1925, when the events of the Chinese nationalist movement were taking place.

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   Is the Painted Veil a good movie?

   • On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of 143 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 71/10. The website's consensus reads: "Visually, The Painted Veil has all the trappings of a stuffy period drama, but Norton and Watts's deft portrayals of imperfect, complicated characters give the film a modern-day spark."

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   How did Percy Bysshe get the title lift not the Painted Veil?

   • He obtained the title from the opening lines of an untitled sonnet by British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumously published in 1824: “Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life” (Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “ Lift Not the Painted Veil .” 1824. Reprint. The Reader, 6 Feb. 2017. Accessed 17 Jul. 2022).

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   The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley 's 1824 sonnet , which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life".

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   The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles.

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   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.

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   Among his masterpieces, which included plays and short stories, are the novels Of Human Bondage (1915), The Painted Veil (1925), and The Razor’s Edge (1944). Although Maugham struggled early on, by 1904 he had four dramas running simultaneously in London, and he was once the world’s highest-paid author.

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   The Painted Veil (1925) is the 11th novel by British novelist and playwright William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). He obtained the title from the opening lines of an untitled sonnet by British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumously published in 1824: “Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life” (Shelley, Percy ...

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   Oct 3, 2018 · The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham is a splendid novel with exquisite details and a curious plot. For an early 20th century male writer, Maugham’s portrayal of Kitty Fane, a young English woman trapped in a miserable marriage to a bacteriologist in Hong Kong, is remarkably earnest and empathetic.

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   Jan 5, 2021 · The Painted Veil. W. Somerset Maugham. Open Road Media, Jan 5, 2021 - Fiction - 290 pages. A novel of love and betrayal set during a cholera epidemic from the acclaimed British author of Of Human...