Catalina (novel)

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Catalina (novel)
First edition (UK)
Author	W. Somerset Maugham
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Heinemann (UK) Doubleday (US)
Publication date	1948
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	256

Catalina is a novel written by W. Somerset Maugham and first published by Heinemann in 1948. Set in Spain during the Inquisition, the novel is a satire on the power of the church. It was Maugham's last published novel.

Plot

Catalina is a crippled girl, supposedly cured by divine intervention after witnessing a vision of the Virgin Mary. As a result, she is pressured into becoming a nun in a Carmelite convent. The Bishop of Segovia, himself undergoing a crisis of faith, becomes involved in the debate about the debt owed to God by Catalina for her cure. Catalina resists all attempts at control, being determined to marry the man she loves. She joins a troupe of strolling players and becomes the most famous actress in all of Spain.

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Catalina at Faded Page (Canada)

v t e Works by W. Somerset Maugham
Novels	Liza of Lambeth (1897) Mrs Craddock (1902) The Magician (1908) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Moon and Sixpence (1919) The Painted Veil (1925) Cakes and Ale (1930) The Narrow Corner (1932) Theatre (1937) Christmas Holiday (1939) Up at the Villa (1941) The Razor's Edge (1944) Then and Now (1946) Catalina (1948)
Short story collections	The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) The Casuarina Tree (1926) Ashenden (1928) Ah King (1933) The Mixture as Before (1940) Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Short stories	"Rain" "The Vessel of Wrath" "The Lotus Eater" "The Unconquered"
Plays	Loaves and Fishes (1902) Lady Frederick (1907) Smith (1909) Penelope (1909) The Land of Promise (1913) Our Betters (1917) Caesar's Wife (1919) The Circle (1921) The Constant Wife (1926) The Letter (1927) The Sacred Flame (1928) The Bread-Winner (1930) For Services Rendered (1932) Sheppey (1933)
Non-fiction	On a Chinese Screen (1922) The Summing Up (1938) Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
Adaptations	The Explorer (1915) The Land of Promise (1917) Smith (1917) The Divorcée (1919) Jack Straw (1920) East of Suez (1925) The Circle (1925) The Canadian (1926) The Magician (1926) Sadie Thompson (1928) The Letter (1929) Charming Sinners (1929) Strictly Unconventional (1930) Rain (1932) The Narrow Corner (1933) Our Betters (1933) Of Human Bondage (1934) The Painted Veil (1934) The Right to Live (1935) Secret Agent (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Isle of Fury (1936) Another Dawn (1937) The Vessel of Wrath (1938) The Letter (1940) Too Many Husbands (1940) The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) The Razor's Edge (1946) Of Human Bondage (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Quartet (1948) Trio (1950) Encore (1951) Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) The Beachcomber (1954) The Seventh Sin (1957) Adorable Julia (1962) Of Human Bondage (1964) The Razor's Edge (1984) Up at the Villa (2000) Being Julia (2004) The Painted Veil (2006)
Related	Somerset Maugham Award

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