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  1. 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.

  2. The Razor's Edge is a 1984 American drama film directed and co-written by John Byrum starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, and James Keach. The film is an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel The Razor's Edge.

  3. 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 .

  4. The Razor's Edge: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter. An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process.

  5. Drama Romance War. He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge. Director. John Byrum. Writers. W. Somerset Maugham.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. www.amazon.com › Razors-Edge-W-Somerset-Maugham › dpThe Razor's Edge - amazon.com

    Jan 1, 2003 · 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.

    • W. Somerset Maugham
  9. When World War I air corps pilot Larry Darrell returns home at the end of the war, he finds himself tormented with questions: why evil exists, whether God is good, and the purpose of life. The search for answers takes him across Europe and into India where he finds a sense of fulfillment in Eastern philosophy.

  10. An American fighter pilot, Larry Darrell, returns from World War I sickened by the violence and fighting he has witnessed. In search of meaning, he travels to Paris, where he tries to live modestly. However, this leads Larry's fiancée, the status-seeking Isabel Bradley, to break off the engagement.

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