The Razor's Edge (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser“[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –The Sunday Times(London)“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirelythere.” –Gore Vidal“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.” –Saturday Review of Literature--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.