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The Razor's Edge follows an American WWI air pilot whose wartime trauma forces him to reject a conventional existence. After two years of study in Paris, he travels and takes various menial jobs, encountering people who shape his worldview. It is only when he reaches India that he begins to find inner peace. The novel explores themes of war, travel, spirituality, and the search for meaning in the early twentieth century.
First publish date: 1944
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: William Somerset Maugham
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