The Razor's Edge

"A classic about the meaning of life and the search of happiness. The author is a character in the book and tells us the story through a series of catch ups with friends and acquaintances. The prose is nice, can be exhaustive however. It is of it’s time, there is some racism and misogyny. Everyone keeps meeting up in Paris over their lifetimes which is very fun. If you are looking for classic that you don’t have to pay too much attention to I recommend it and overall enjoyed."

"As usual, Maugham blends what is perhaps best described as certain existential nuances of the human experience, with the intellectually spiritual. His expected management of character development is surpassed in this novel - where usually even the main voices are no more than dolled up vehicles of his thoughts or plot porters - the allegorical nature to his writing here is gilded with characters whom one can conceive actually existing (read: they have soul), which is a tall order in a narrative fiction already dense with Maugham's beautiful subtleties and intricately constructed character psyche's.<br/><br/>Easily tied with "Of Human Bondage" as my favorite Maugham work; this one particularly vibrates with life, where the former is more of a well-articulated tragedy rooted in the muted grays of plausibility."

"It discusses the different ways one attempts to find inner peace. "