Catalina Author:W. Somerset Maugham In Catalina, Somerset Maugham tells movingly of 16th Century Spain with all its turbulence adn pageantry, and intrigue of courts and clergy... of the dreaded Inquisition with its torture racks and burnings ... and of Catalina, herself - young, beautiful, feeling the first stirrings of desire, cured of her lameness by a miracle, who gives up all ... more »the glory and power that might be hers for the willful and passionate love of Diego, son of a poor tailor.« less