The Painted Veil (novel)
1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil (novel)
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). Beginning in December 1924, it was serialised in the United Kingdom in eight parts in [Nash's Magazine, v.74, issue 380 (Dec. 1924) pp.10-87, then monthly until v.75, issue 387 (July 1925), pp. 56-72]. The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the novel was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. In the preface to The Painted Veil, Maugham tells how the main characters originally were called Lane, but that the names were changed to Fane, following the success of a libel case against the publishers by a Hong Kong couple with the name of Lane. The couple were awarded £250. To avoid similar problems after A. G. M. Fletcher...
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