"The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham was published in 1944 and sold over 3 million copies, remaining on the best seller list for a year and a half. Many consider this to be Maugham at his best.

THE RAZOR’S EDGE — W. Somerset Maugham—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their ...

Bill Murray stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham of a World War I veteran disillusioned by jazz-age values. He breaks off his engagement to Isabel (Catherine Hicks) and ...

The Razor's ed ge has everything for virtually every type of film fan. Fundamentally it's all good cinematurgy. It's a moving picture that moves. The Razor’s ed ge has everything for virtually every ...

William Somerset Maugham CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was ...

David L. Ulin is the editor of "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology" and the author of the forthcoming "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and ...

SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Life. By Jeffrey Meyers. Knopf, 349 pp. $30. Who better to write a biography of the versatile, prolific and long-lived William Somerset Maugham than Jeffrey Meyers, himself an ...

A book I’ve returned to time and time again W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge. It has meant something different to me with every read. Like picking up a new book every time, it has resonated ...