The Razors Edge (1944) - W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Spiritual & Religious
Narrator: Frank Muller
Tags: Spiritual & Religious, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins Release date: 1988 Publisher: Recorded Books, A compelling novel of self-discovery and the search for meaning., The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition., Larry Darrell goes in search of the absolute, he leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coalmine - becomes Larrys spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s., The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maughams most brilliant characters - his fianc Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob., The most ambitious of Maughams novels
