The Razor’s Edge

By W. Somerset Maugham

By W. Somerset Maugham

Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Best Seller
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Look Inside | Enlarge Cover

Enlarge Cover

Paperback $17.00

Sep 09, 2003 | 320 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Jan 26, 2011 | 320 Pages

All Formats
+

    Paperback
    –


      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/prhdev/candreotti-prhcom.dev.randomhouse.com/www/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/mvc/PenguinRandomHouse/View/php/product-details/content-main.phtml on line 271
    • Paperback $17.00

      Sep 09, 2003 | 320 Pages

    Ebook
    +


      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/prhdev/candreotti-prhcom.dev.randomhouse.com/www/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/mvc/PenguinRandomHouse/View/php/product-details/content-main.phtml on line 271
    • Ebook $11.99

      Jan 26, 2011 | 320 Pages

    Buy the Ebook:

    About The Razor’s Edge

    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.

    About The Razor’s Edge

    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.

    Get the news you want from Penguin Random House

    Praise

    “[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

    About W. Somerset Maugham

    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place… More about W. Somerset Maugham

    About W. Somerset Maugham

    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place… More about W. Somerset Maugham

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 09, 2003 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400034208

    Ebook
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 26, 2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307785084

    People Who Read The Razor’s Edge Also Read

    ‹ ›
    Rebecca
    Rebecca
    Daphne du Maurier
    Atonement
    Atonement
    Ian McEwan
    Possession
    Possession
    A. S. Byatt
    The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    The Hobbit (Movie Tie-in Edition)
    The Hobbit (Movie Tie-in Edition)
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    His Dark Materials
    His Dark Materials
    Philip Pullman
    The Once and Future King
    The Once and Future King
    T. H. White
    Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition
    Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition
    William Golding
    Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver’s Travels
    Jonathan Swift
    The Satanic Verses
    The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    The Good Soldier
    The Good Soldier
    Ford Madox Ford
    The Old Wives' Tale
    The Old Wives’ Tale
    Arnold Bennett
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    Agatha Christie
    Excellent Women
    Excellent Women
    Barbara Pym
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    James Joyce
    Cold Comfort Farm
    Cold Comfort Farm
    Stella Gibbons
    Jacob's Room
    Jacob’s Room
    Virginia Woolf
    Sons and Lovers
    Sons and Lovers
    D. H. Lawrence
    The End of the Affair
    The End of the Affair
    Graham Greene
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition
    Douglas Adams
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    Mark Haddon
    Kim
    Kim
    Rudyard Kipling
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    D.H. Lawrence
    The Scarlet Pimpernel
    The Scarlet Pimpernel
    Baroness Orczy
    Heart of Darkness
    Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Corelli's Mandolin
    Corelli’s Mandolin
    Louis de Bernieres
    1984
    1984
    George Orwell
    A Passage to India
    A Passage to India
    E. M. Forster
    The Scarlet Pimpernel
    The Scarlet Pimpernel
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy
    The Well of Loneliness
    The Well of Loneliness
    Radclyffe Hall
    Claudius the God
    Claudius the God
    Robert Graves
    A Room with a View
    A Room with a View
    E.M. Forster
    The Magus
    The Magus
    John Fowles

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Related Articles

    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Biographile

    Biographile

    Discover the world through biography and memoir
    Bookscout

    Bookscout

    Make reading social

    Books for Better Living

    Health & Wellness
    Everyday eBook

    Everyday eBook

    Smart, savvy reading, delivered daily
    First to Read

    First to Read

    Early access to Penguin’s Hottest New Titles
    Suvudu

    Suvudu

    The mothership for Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics, & more
    Tastebook img

    Tastebook

    Over 4 million recipes to search and collect
    Word and Film

    Word and Film

    The intersection of books, movies, and television