Author: W. Somerset Maugham Year: 1948 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Historical fiction, Free books Culture: Spain
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ISBNs: 9780405078088 9780099286844 0405078080 009928684X |
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Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.
The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
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