num_pages: 341
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: Sophie Macdonald, Dr. Bob Nelson, Louisa Bradley, Suzanne Rouvier, Gray Maturin, Isabel Bradley, W. Somerset Maugham, Larry Darrell, Elliott Templeton
genres: Fiction, France, Philosophy, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 46656
places: France, French Riviera, The United States of America, Paris, Chicago, Illinois
publisher: VINTAGE