The Razor's Edge
Language: English
1914-1918 1914-1918 - Veterans Americans Bildungsromans Classics Fiction General India Literary Media Tie-In Paris (France) Upper class World War
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 9, 1944
Language: English
1914-1918 1914-1918 - Veterans Americans Bildungsromans Classics Fiction General India Literary Media Tie-In Paris (France) Upper class World War
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 9, 1944
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Product Description
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 fiancée 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.
Review
?[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_ -- Review
Product Description
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 fiancée 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.