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Get unlimited access to SuperSummary. for only $0.70/week. By W. Somerset Maugham. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “The Razor's Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes ...
Dewey Decimal. 813.54. The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. Maugham is the narrator whose narration takes the form of relating his conversations and reactions ...
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1944
The Razor's Edge represents a significant advancement in Maugham's fictional technique in two key areas. While he continues to rely heavily on natural dialogue and dramatic interactions, his time ...
After Larry’s return, her old feelings are rekindled. Tormented with migraines and lack of self-confidence, Gray has a hard time. It is not a wonder, for his family business is destroyed with the economic decline. To everyone’s surprise, Larry cures him. Later on, they meet Sophie, their old childhood friend.
Article History. The Razor’s Edge, philosophical novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1944. The novel is concerned in large part with the search for the meaning of life and with the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality. Set in Chicago, Paris, and India in the 1920s and ’30s, it involves characters from sharply different worlds.
Written by Timothy Sexton. Larry Darrell is the type of character that get a reader in a lot of trouble if that reader comes into contact with Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge at the wrong time. Maugham’s hero is one of those romantic figures of literature that we all want to think really exists out there in the real world, but ...
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Summary. Larry Darrell, a World War I aviator who sees his best friend killed, does his best to adjust to postwar life as a businessman in Chicago, but he cannot handle it. Everything seems too ...
