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Book Corner – May 2020 (4) - The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham

I must confess that I am a late convert to Maugham. For some reason, I had always considered him a bit passé but I enjoyed Ashenden and decided to explore some more of his works. The Razor’s Edge is one of his later works, published in 1944 and made into a film two years later, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. As Maugham observes at the end, it is…

Chapter Two – Whatever Happened to Larry Darrell After the Razor’s Edge?

A Hermit in The City “No, I didn’t mean ‘hermit’ as a metaphor. At least it isn’t to him.” Larry Darrell was chatting with his friend in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel. “Blue is one of my regular passengers. “Blue, that’s his name, holds lettered degrees! He’s a physicist. “He chose to give up work on the bomb. “So, for decades he’s been living as a hermit.”

Somerset Maugham couldn’t resist,…

Whatever Happened to Larry Darrell After the Razor’s Edge?

The Meeting at the Algonquin Hotel

It’s understandable that the maître d’ wouldn’t take him for one of the hotel’s esteemed guests.

The young man was wearing waist-length denim jacket, neatly creased jeans and dark blue French beret.

He had come directly to the oak-paneled dining room and the maître d’ assumed he was a hotel guest’s driver.

He said, “Who shall I say you are meeting?”

“Oh, thank…