num_pages: 314
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: Suzanne Rouvier, Gray Maturin, W. Somerset Maugham, Isabel Bradley, Larry Darrell, Sophie Macdonald, Louisa Bradley, Elliott Templeton, Dr. Bob Nelson
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Philosophy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 46649
places: French Riviera, France, Paris, Chicago, Illinois, The United States of America
publisher: Penguin Group USA