Somerset Maugham

Men and women are not only themselves, Somerset Maugham writes in The Razor’s Edge (1944), “they are also the region in which they were born, the city or apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, . . .

Maugham

Dear Match Book, I am on a somewhat leisurely around-the-world journey and would like some suggestions for books with travel and self-discovery as a theme, like “The Razor’s Edge,” by W. Somerset Maugham.

a book by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944

The Razor’s Edge is a book by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944.

English writer W. Somerset Maugham’s novel,

One of the wisest thoughts I’ve ever encountered about impermanence is this one from English writer W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, THE RAZOR’S EDGE: “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in anything while we have anything .”

W. Somerset Maugham's last great novel

The Razor’s Edge was W. Somerset Maugham's last great novel and remains one of W. Somerset Maugham's most enduring.

W. Somerset Maugham’s encounter with an Eastern guru and The Maharshi's fictionalized protagonist, Larry Darrell’s search for the meaning of life

THE RAZOR’S EDGE is probably the first book you think of in relation to British novelist, W. Somerset Maugham’s encounter with an Eastern guru and The Maharshi's fictionalized protagonist, Larry Darrell’s search for the meaning of life.

W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge

Another change talking with a great l to equation after WWI is W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge.

One of my favorite authors, W. Somerset Maugham

One of my favorite authors, W. Somerset Maugham, wrote a book titled, The Razor's Edge.