The Razor's Edge

✍ Scribed by Maugham, Somerset

• Book ID: 107212011
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 221 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser

“[Maugham′s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –_The Sunday Times_ (London)

“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there.” –Gore Vidal

“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.” –_Saturday Review of Literature_

Product Description

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.'' '' Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.