Blade's edge

Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Maugham is hailed as a storytelling British writer. The Razor's Edge is one of his major works. American pilot Larry Darrell meets an Irish comrade in the military and, during a battle, the comrade sacrifices himself to save Larry. Larry becomes disillusioned with life and struggles to understand why there is evil and suffering in the world. After being discharged from the military, Larry refuses to go to college or find a job, determined to seek the ultimate meaning of life. For this, he leaves his fiancée and comes to Paris, then travels the world from Paris, and finally ends up in India, where he achieves profound enlightenment about life. He returns to the United States, becomes a self-sufficient taxi driver, and plans to blend into the crowd and live out his days in obscurity.