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The Razor's Edge

by William Somerset Maugham · 1944

Biography & Memoir · ranked #69 in category

This novel, supposedly based on the life of an acquaintance of Maugham, follows the fortunes of an American pilot who, traumatized by war, rejects his former conventional life to search for a more mea

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The verdict

Category
Biography & Memoir
First published
1944 · 1940s
Author
William Somerset Maugham
Standing
Recommended

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