The Razor's Edge - Couverture souple

Curtis, Anthony; Maugham, W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140185232 ISBN 13 : 9780140185232

Editeur : Penguin Group USA, 1992

Synopsis

Book by W Somerset Maugham

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Immensely craftsman-like...a fascinating book' Times Literary Supplement

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.

See also: Of Human Bondage

Revue de presse

“[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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Group USA
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140185232
• ISBN 13: 9780140185232
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336