num_pages: 246
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.
title: The Razor's Edge
titlecomplete: The Razor's Edge
characters: Sophie Macdonald, Isabel Bradley, Louisa Bradley, Dr. Bob Nelson, W. Somerset Maugham, Suzanne Rouvier, Elliott Templeton, Larry Darrell, Gray Maturin
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 46656
places: French Riviera, The United States of America, Chicago, Illinois, France, Paris
publisher: The Blakiston Company