PublishedVintage Classics, April 2000 |
ISBN9780099284864 |
FormatSoftcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.2cm |
An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
