Razor's Edge

Description: Maugham's greatest popular novel tells the story of Larry Darrell, an attractive and enigmatic American who forsakes bourgeois society to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth and meaning.

Review Quotes: "[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