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The Razor's Edge

W Somerset Maugham author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

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An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham

The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

One of my favourite writers -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact, irony and total absence of pomposity * Spectator *

ISBN: 9780099284864

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 248g

352 pages