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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.

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Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general

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Is The Razor's Edge part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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