Մոեմ, Սոմերսեթ, 1874-1965

The Razor's Edge : a novel / by W. Somerset Maugham. - [First ed] - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. - [4] preliminary leaves, 343 p. ; 21 cm. - 82E-31 (NLA) .

With hardcover

A young American, vaguely conscious that he is "missing something," goes to Paris and India in search of God and the infinite. A flyer returns from World War I seeking spiritual peace. He rejects the comfortable world of his fiancee and sets off around the world. Leaving wealth and loved ones behind, Larry Darrell journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom. Larry Darrell, a World War I veteran haunted by his memories of the war, abandons his easy life for first Paris and then a Tibetan monastery


Voyages and travels--Fiction
Spiritual biography
Orientalism

82E-31 (NLA)