num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Catalina
titlecomplete: Catalina (Vintage Classics)
characters: Catalina Orta y Perez, Manuel De Valero, Martin De Valero, Blasco Suarez De Valero, Diego Martinez
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Spain
ratings_count: 821
places: Spain
publisher: Vintage Publishing