Catalina (novel)

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 ^[1]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 of this, 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, but the girl resists all attempts to control her life, determined to marry the man she loves. She joins a troupe of strolling players and becomes the most famous actress in all of Spain.

References

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Works by W. Somerset Maugham

Novels	Liza of Lambeth (1897) The Making of a Saint (1898) Orientations (1899) The Hero (1901) Mrs Craddock (1902) The Merry-go-round (1904) The Bishop's Apron (1906) The Explorer (1908) The Magician (1908) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Moon and Sixpence (1919) The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) On a Chinese Screen (1922) The Painted Veil (1925) Cakes and Ale (1930) The Narrow Corner (1932) Ah King (1933) Theatre (1937) The Summing Up (1938) Christmas Holiday (1939) Strictly Personal (1941) Up at the Villa (1941) The Razor's Edge (1944) Then and Now (1946) Catalina (1948) The Vagrant Mood (1952)

Short story collections	The Casuarina Tree (1926) Ashenden (1928) Creatures of Circumstance (1947)

Plays	Lady Frederick (1903) Mrs. Dot (1904) Jack Straw (1907) Penelope (1908) Smith (1909) The Land of Promise (1913) Our Betters (1915) The Unattainable (1915) Home and Beauty (1918) Caesar's Wife (1918) The Circle (1919) The Unknown (1920) East of Suez (1922) 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) Don Fernando (1935) Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)

Related	Somerset Maugham Award

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