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The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The story begins through the eyes of Larry's friends and acquaintances as they witness his personality change after the ...
- W. Somerset Maugham
- United States
- 1944
- English
Tyrone Power stars as a young man who travels the world in search of enlightenment and loses his fiancée in the process. The film, based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel, won an Oscar and features Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter and Clifton Webb.
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- Edmund Goulding
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- Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
The Razor's Edge is a 1946 American drama film based on W. Somerset Maugham 's 1944 novel of the same name. It stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall, with a supporting cast including Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore, and Elsa Lanchester. Marshall plays Somerset Maugham.
- Darryl F. Zanuck
The Razor's Edge: Directed by John Byrum. With Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott. He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything.
- John Byrum
- 1 min
The Razor’s Edge, philosophical novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1944. The novel is concerned in large part with the search for the meaning of life and with the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality. Set in Chicago, Paris, and India in the 1920s and ’30s, it involves characters
(Book 570 From 1001 Books) - The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The book was first published in 1944. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) wrote The Razor’s Edge in 1944. The novel’s title comes from a quotation translated from the Katha Upanishad, with the assistance of Christopher Isherwood: “Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize. The path is difficult to cross like the sharpened edge of the razor."
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