Handout: the painted veil (1925)
0 About Maugham (1) WHO is Maugham (please wiki) (2) TIMING of when this novel finished (1925) 1 About Preface: how Maugham came up with the idea (1) Background of Dante (please wiki) (2) Context & Meaning of the lines "‘Pray, when you are returned to the world, and rested from the long journey; followed the third spirit on the second, ‘ remember me, who am Pia. Siena made me, Maremma unmade me: this he knows who after betrothal espoused me with his ring. " ... “When we came to the passage I have quoted above she told me that Pia was a gentlewoman of Siena whose husband, suspecting her of adultery and afraid on account of her family to put her to death, took her down to his castle in the Maremma the noxious vapours of which he was confident would do the trick; but she took so long to die that he grew impatient and had her thrown out of the window.” 2 How the story goes Part I: in Hongkong [Beginning] “ She gave a startled cry. ‘What’s the matter?’ he asked. Notwithstandin...