The Razor's Edge - Softcover

Maugham, W. Somerset.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749303506 ISBN 13: 9780749303501

Publisher: Mandarin, 1990

Synopsis

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance e Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

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Review:

"İMaugham is¨ a great artist . . . a genius." -Theodore Dreiser
"İMaugham'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 entirely "there."" -Gore Vidal
"Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . İHis 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"

" [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 entirely "there,"" - 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"

"[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 entirely "there"." -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"

Book Description:

An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham

About this edition

• Publisher: Mandarin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0749303506
• ISBN 13: 9780749303501
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 340