Duration: 9 hours, 2 min. Read by Tatyana Telegina.William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He is a writer who wrote what he knew and is pleasant to read - anyone new to his works can testify to that after just a few pages. The novel is largely based in South East Asia, where a woman joins her husband in the fight against a choldera outbreak, leaving behind a torrid affair in England. Maugham raises issues of morality and loyalty in his novel "The Painted Veil".
