CATALINA: A ROMANCE. (original 1948; edition 1948)

by W. Somerset. Maughan

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Title:	CATALINA: A ROMANCE.
Authors:	W. Somerset. Maughan
Info:	William Heineman (1948), Hardcover
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Catalina by W. Somerset Maugham (1948)

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I would not have thought that an inquisitor could be a sympathetic character, but he is. Not by any means flawless, but human. Catalina herself, though, is fairly two dimensional. The bishop and the prioress are the meat of this book. (

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Catalina

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1948

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Catalina

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Spain

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1948)

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It was a great day for the city of Castel Rodgriguez.

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The Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham

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"It was the Blessed Virgin" she cried...

Spain at the time of the dread Inquisition.

Catalina, a destitute cripple, has been promised a miraculous cure but she becomes the centre of a storm of religious and political intrigue...

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