num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Razor's Edge
titlecomplete: The Razor's Edge
characters: W. Somerset Maugham, Larry Darrell, Sophie Macdonald, Louisa Bradley, Suzanne Rouvier, Dr. Bob Nelson, Gray Maturin, Elliott Templeton, Isabel Bradley
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 46649
places: Paris, Chicago, Illinois, The United States of America, French Riviera, France
publisher: Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)