TY - BOOK AU - Maugham, Somerset W. TI - The razor's edge T2 - Vintage Classics SN - 9780099284864 U1 - 823.912 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Vintage books KW - Veterans KW - India KW - Upper class KW - France--Paris KW - Voyages and travels KW - Americans--Travel N2 - 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. ER -