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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Razor's Edge'
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Razor's Edge about Blakiston, Company with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: This is the 1945 Blakiston Company edition probably printed for a book club.
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Razor's Edge about American with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Literary.
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conversations.value: The story of the spiritual odyssey of a young American in search of God.
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conversations.value: The Razor's Edge (1946 film): The film, in which Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois.\nElliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.\nLarry is traumatized by the death of a comrade who sacrificed himself on the last day of the war to save Larry and announces that he plans to "loaf" on his small inheritance of $3,000 a year.\nHe refuses a job offer from the father of his friend Gray (John Payne), a millionaire who is hopelessly in love with Isabel, too.\nLarry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage so that he can go to Paris to try to clear his muddled thoughts.\nMeanwhile, Larry\'s childhood friend, Sophie Nelson (Anne Baxter), settles into a happy marriage with Bob MacDonald (Frank Latimore), only to lose him and their baby in a car crash.\nIn Paris, Larry immerses himself in a Bohemian life.\nAfter a year, Isabel visits and Larry asks her to marry him immediately.\nIsabel does not understand his search for meaning and breaks their engagement.\nBefore she returns to Chicago she cannot carry through with a scheme to seduce Larry and trick him into making an "honest woman" of her.\nShe marries Gray to provide her the elite social and family life she craves.\nMeanwhile, Larry works in a coal mine in France, where a defrocked priest, Kosti (Fritz Kortner), urges him travel to India to learn from a mystic.\nLarry studies at a monastery in the Himalayas under the tutelage of the Holy Man (Cecil Humphreys), then makes a lone pilgrimage to the mountaintop where he finds enlightenment.\nThe Holy Man tells Larry to return to the world to share what he now knows about life.\nBack in Paris, Maugham meets Elliott by chance and learns that Isabel and her family are living with Elliott after being financially ruined by the stock market crash of 1929.\nGray has had a nervous breakdown and suffers from terrible headaches.\nElliott "sold short" before the crash and "made a killing" in the market.\nMaugham arranges a lunch for Elliott and his household to meet an old friend, who turns out to be Larry.\nLarry is able to help Gray using an Indian form of hypnotic suggestion.\nLater, while slumming at a disreputable nightclub, they encounter Sophie, now a drunkard.\nLarry undertakes Sophie\'s reformation, and out of lofty motives arranges to marry her; but when he tells Isabel, who is still in love with him, she plots to prove to Larry that Sophie\'s reform is only temporary.\nShe successfully tempts Sophie back into drinking and Sophie disappears.\nLarry\'s last endeavour to reclaim his childhood companion from her depravity and despair proves fruitless.\nSophie is murdered and her death reunites Larry and Maugham during the police investigation.\nMaugham and Larry visit Elliott on his deathbed in the South of France.\nLarry gives Elliott peace of mind after he is deliberately excluded from an important soiree hosted by a princess with whom he had a row, herself once an American Midwesterner like Elliott.\nLarry persuades Miss Keith (Lanchester), her social secretary, to allow him to use a blank invitation to counterfeit one for Elliott.\nIsabel inherits her uncle\'s fortune, which she can use to underwrite Gray\'s attempt to rebuild his father\'s bankrupt brokerage.\nLarry refuses to reconcile with Isabel, deducing that she caused Sophie\'s return to drinking, and ultimately, her murder.\nInstead he decides to work his way back to America aboard a tramp steamer.\nMaugham tries to console Isabel with the knowledge that Larry is happy because he has found in himself the quality of true "goodness".
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conversations.value: \nElliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.\nLarry is traumatized by the death of a comrade who sacrificed himself on the last day of the war to save Larry and announces that he plans to "loaf" on his small inheritance of $3,000 a year.\nHe refuses a job offer from the father of his friend Gray (John Payne), a millionaire who is hopelessly in love with Isabel, too.\nLarry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage so that he can go to Paris to try to clear his muddled thoughts.\nMeanwhile, Larry\'s childhood friend, Sophie Nelson (Anne Baxter), settles into a happy marriage with Bob MacDonald (Frank Latimore), only to lose him and their baby in a car crash.\nIn Paris, Larry immerses himself in a Bohemian life.\nAfter a year, Isabel visits and Larry asks her to marry him immediately.\nIsabel does not understand his search for meaning and breaks their engagement.\nBefore she returns to Chicago she cannot carry through with a scheme to seduce Larry and trick him into making an "honest woman" of her.\nShe marries Gray to provide her the elite social and family life she craves.\nMeanwhile, Larry works in a coal mine in France, where a defrocked priest, Kosti (Fritz Kortner), urges him travel to India to learn from a mystic.\nLarry studies at a monastery in the Himalayas under the tutelage of the Holy Man (Cecil Humphreys), then makes a lone pilgrimage to the mountaintop where he finds enlightenment.\nThe Holy Man tells Larry to return to the world to share what he now knows about life.\nBack in Paris, Maugham meets Elliott by chance and learns that Isabel and her family are living with Elliott after being financially ruined by the stock market crash of 1929.\nGray has had a nervous breakdown and suffers from terrible headaches.\nElliott "sold short" before the crash and "made a killing" in the market.\nMaugham arranges a lunch for Elliott and his household to meet an old friend, who turns out to be Larry.\nLarry is able to help Gray using an Indian form of hypnotic suggestion.\nLater, while slumming at a disreputable nightclub, they encounter Sophie, now a drunkard.\nLarry undertakes Sophie\'s reformation, and out of lofty motives arranges to marry her; but when he tells Isabel, who is still in love with him, she plots to prove to Larry that Sophie\'s reform is only temporary.\nShe successfully tempts Sophie back into drinking and Sophie disappears.\nLarry\'s last endeavour to reclaim his childhood companion from her depravity and despair proves fruitless.\nSophie is murdered and her death reunites Larry and Maugham during the police investigation.\nMaugham and Larry visit Elliott on his deathbed in the South of France.\nLarry gives Elliott peace of mind after he is deliberately excluded from an important soiree hosted by a princess with whom he had a row, herself once an American Midwesterner like Elliott.\nLarry persuades Miss Keith (Lanchester), her social secretary, to allow him to use a blank invitation to counterfeit one for Elliott.\nIsabel inherits her uncle\'s fortune, which she can use to underwrite Gray\'s attempt to rebuild his father\'s bankrupt brokerage.\nLarry refuses to reconcile with Isabel, deducing that she caused Sophie\'s return to drinking, and ultimately, her murder.\nInstead he decides to work his way back to America aboard a tramp steamer.\nMaugham tries to console Isabel with the knowledge that Larry is happy because he has found in himself the quality of true "goodness".
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conversations.value: The Razor's Edge (1946 film): The film, in which Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois.\nElliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.\nLarry is traumatized by the death of a comrade who sacrificed himself on the last day of the war to save Larry and announces that he plans to "loaf" on his small inheritance of $3,000 a year.\nHe refuses a job offer from the father of his friend Gray (John Payne), a millionaire who is hopelessly in love with Isabel, too.\nLarry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage so that he can go to Paris to try to clear his muddled thoughts.\nMeanwhile, Larry\'s childhood friend, Sophie Nelson (Anne Baxter), settles into a happy marriage with Bob MacDonald (Frank Latimore), only to lose him and their baby in a car crash.\nIn Paris, Larry immerses himself in a Bohemian life.\nAfter a year, Isabel visits and Larry asks her to marry him immediately.\nIsabel does not understand his search for meaning and breaks their engagement.\nBefore she returns to Chicago she cannot carry through with a scheme to seduce Larry and trick him into making an "honest woman" of her.\nShe marries Gray to provide her the elite social and family life she craves.\nMeanwhile, Larry works in a coal mine in France, where a defrocked priest, Kosti (Fritz Kortner), urges him travel to India to learn from a mystic.\nLarry studies at a monastery in the Himalayas under the tutelage of the Holy Man (Cecil Humphreys), then makes a lone pilgrimage to the mountaintop where he finds enlightenment.\nThe Holy Man tells Larry to return to the world to share what he now knows about life.\nBack in Paris, Maugham meets Elliott by chance and learns that Isabel and her family are living with Elliott after being financially ruined by the stock market crash of 1929.\nGray has had a nervous breakdown and suffers from terrible headaches.\nElliott "sold short" before the crash and "made a killing" in the market.\nMaugham arranges a lunch for Elliott and his household to meet an old friend, who turns out to be Larry.\nLarry is able to help Gray using an Indian form of hypnotic suggestion.\nLater, while slumming at a disreputable nightclub, they encounter Sophie, now a drunkard.\nLarry undertakes Sophie\'s reformation, and out of lofty motives arranges to marry her; but when he tells Isabel, who is still in love with him, she plots to prove to Larry that Sophie\'s reform is only temporary.\nShe successfully tempts Sophie back into drinking and Sophie disappears.\nLarry\'s last endeavour to reclaim his childhood companion from her depravity and despair proves fruitless.\nSophie is murdered and her death reunites Larry and Maugham during the police investigation.\nMaugham and Larry visit Elliott on his deathbed in the South of France.\nLarry gives Elliott peace of mind after he is deliberately excluded from an important soiree hosted by a princess with whom he had a row, herself once an American Midwesterner like Elliott.\nLarry persuades Miss Keith (Lanchester), her social secretary, to allow him to use a blank invitation to counterfeit one for Elliott.\nIsabel inherits her uncle\'s fortune, which she can use to underwrite Gray\'s attempt to rebuild his father\'s bankrupt brokerage.\nLarry refuses to reconcile with Isabel, deducing that she caused Sophie\'s return to drinking, and ultimately, her murder.\nInstead he decides to work his way back to America aboard a tramp steamer.\nMaugham tries to console Isabel with the knowledge that Larry is happy because he has found in himself the quality of true "goodness".
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conversations.value: \nMaugham tries to console Isabel with the knowledge that Larry is happy because he has found in himself the quality of true "goodness".\nElliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.\nLarry is traumatized by the death of a comrade who sacrificed himself on the last day of the war to save Larry and announces that he plans to "loaf" on his small inheritance of $3,000 a year.\nHe refuses a job offer from the father of his friend Gray (John Payne), a millionaire who is hopelessly in love with Isabel, too.\nLarry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage so that he can go to Paris to try to clear his muddled thoughts.\nMeanwhile, Larry\'s childhood friend, Sophie Nelson (Anne Baxter), settles into a happy marriage with Bob MacDonald (Frank Latimore), only to lose him and their baby in a car crash.\nIn Paris, Larry immerses himself in a Bohemian life.\nAfter a year, Isabel visits and Larry asks her to marry him immediately.\nIsabel does not understand his search for meaning and breaks their engagement.\nBefore she returns to Chicago she cannot carry through with a scheme to seduce Larry and trick him into making an "honest woman" of her.\nShe marries Gray to provide her the elite social and family life she craves.\nMeanwhile, Larry works in a coal mine in France, where a defrocked priest, Kosti (Fritz Kortner), urges him travel to India to learn from a mystic.\nLarry studies at a monastery in the Himalayas under the tutelage of the Holy Man (Cecil Humphreys), then makes a lone pilgrimage to the mountaintop where he finds enlightenment.\nThe Holy Man tells Larry to return to the world to share what he now knows about life.\nBack in Paris, Maugham meets Elliott by chance and learns that Isabel and her family are living with Elliott after being financially ruined by the stock market crash of 1929.\nGray has had a nervous breakdown and suffers from terrible headaches.\nElliott "sold short" before the crash and "made a killing" in the market.\nMaugham arranges a lunch for Elliott and his household to meet an old friend, who turns out to be Larry.\nLarry is able to help Gray using an Indian form of hypnotic suggestion.\nLater, while slumming at a disreputable nightclub, they encounter Sophie, now a drunkard.\nLarry undertakes Sophie\'s reformation, and out of lofty motives arranges to marry her; but when he tells Isabel, who is still in love with him, she plots to prove to Larry that Sophie\'s reform is only temporary.\nShe successfully tempts Sophie back into drinking and Sophie disappears.\nLarry\'s last endeavour to reclaim his childhood companion from her depravity and despair proves fruitless.\nSophie is murdered and her death reunites Larry and Maugham during the police investigation.\nMaugham and Larry visit Elliott on his deathbed in the South of France.\nLarry gives Elliott peace of mind after he is deliberately excluded from an important soiree hosted by a princess with whom he had a row, herself once an American Midwesterner like Elliott.\nLarry persuades Miss Keith (Lanchester), her social secretary, to allow him to use a blank invitation to counterfeit one for Elliott.\nIsabel inherits her uncle\'s fortune, which she can use to underwrite Gray\'s attempt to rebuild his father\'s bankrupt brokerage.\nLarry refuses to reconcile with Isabel, deducing that she caused Sophie\'s return to drinking, and ultimately, her murder.\nInstead he decides to work his way back to America aboard a tramp steamer.The Razor's Edge (1946 film): The film, in which Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois.
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conversations.value: The Razor's Edge (1984 film): In Illinois, in 1917, just before America joins World War I, a fair has been planned to raise money to support Gray Maturin and Larry Darrell, who are joining World War I as ambulance drivers.\nLarry looks forward to returning home to marry his longtime sweetheart Isabel.\nLarry shares a final night with Isabel watching the fireworks along with Gray, their close friend Sophie, and her husband Bob.\nAt the front, commanding officer Piedmont schools his new men on the harsh reality of war.\nFor example, he has both of them armed, because in spite of it being an ambulance unit and America\'s neutrality, the enemy can and will kill those helping the Allies.\nHe also destroys the headlights and windows of a fellow ambulance truck because the lights will signal enemies to their unit.\nLarry adapts quickly, shooting the headlights and windows of his own truck.\nLarry witnesses the deaths of soldiers and fellow ambulance drivers, and is in constant danger.\nBy the time America is deeply in the war, Larry\'s unit is down to a few men.\nDuring an unexpected encounter with German soldiers, Piedmont is fatally stabbed trying to block a German soldier from shooting a wounded Larry.\nThe war ends not long after, and when he and Gray return to America, Larry suffers survivor\'s guilt and realizes that his life has changed.\nHis plans to join Gray in working for Gray\'s father as a stockbroker will not make him happy, so he puts off his engagement to Isabel and travels to Paris in an effort to find meaning in his life.\nIsabel\'s uncle, Elliott Templeton, assures her that some time in Paris will help clear Larry\'s mind and take away any jitters he has about marriage.\nInstead of following Elliott\'s suggestions of staying at first-class hotels and wining and dining with the aristocracy, Larry lives a simple life, reading philosophy books in a cheap hotel.\nHe finds work, first as a fish packer, then as a coal miner.\nAfter saving the life of a coworker by pushing him out of the way of an out-of-control mine car, he has a conversation about books with the elder miner.\nThe miner discusses a Russian magician\'s book, lends a copy of the Upanishads, and suggests that Larry travel to India to gain a different perspective.\nIn India, Larry joins a Buddhist monastery.\nAs an exercise, he hikes to the top of a snow-covered mountain and meditates alone.\nAfter running out of firewood he starts to burn books that he brought along.\nHe finds his sense of inner peace.\nA monk lets him know that his journey is not over, that the path to salvation is as narrow and difficult to walk "as a razor\'s edge".\nReturning to Paris, Larry first re-encounters Elliott, who lets him know that many things have changed, notably that Isabel has married Gray.\n(She had ended her relationship with Larry after a disastrous reunion in Paris not long after he first arrived) They have had two children.\nGray and Isabel were forced to move to Elliot\'s house in Paris after the Great Depression bankrupted Gray\'s livelihood (His spirit was also shattered when his father committed suicide after the crash) Also while Larry was gone, Sophie lost both Bob and her child in a car accident and turned to alcohol, opium, and prostitution.\nLarry immediately attempts to reform Sophie, and after a period of time they become engaged.\nIsabel insists that she will buy Sophie a wedding dress as a gift.\nThey have a conversation where Isabel admits she still loves Larry and condemns Sophie, labeling her a burden on Larry.\nShe is interrupted by a phone call and leaves Sophie alone with a bottle of liquor.\nLarry searches for Sophie and finds her at an opium den with her former pimp.\nAfter a confrontation, Larry is left bleeding in the street with a black eye while Sophie stays in the establishment.\nThe next morning, Larry is awakened by two men at the door and brought to the morgue to identify Sophie\'s body.\nHer throat had been slashed by a razor.\nLarry then goes to Elliott\'s house to try to figure out what went wrong the previous day.\nElliott has had a stroke and has been given his last rites.\nLarry confronts Isabel about what happened and forces her to admit her role in driving Sophie back to the bottle.\nShe tells Larry what she did is no different from Larry ruining their relationship by running off to find the meaning of his "goddammed life," but she admits that she still loves him and did not want anyone (including Sophie) to hurt him the way she had.\nBefore Larry can respond, they are interrupted by the final moments of Elliott\'s life.\nLarry does a good deed for Elliott by convincing him that the Parisian aristocrats have not forgotten about him.\n(He had been waiting for an invitation to a costume party thrown by a French princess) After Elliott dies, Larry comforts the grief-stricken Isabel.\nHe admits that his journey was about trying to lead a good life that would make him worthy of Piedmont\'s sacrifice.\nHe and Isabel part on reasonable terms, and he says his goodbyes to her and to Gray.\nHe states his intention to depart for home, which prompts the question, "Where is home.\n" to which he replies, "America".\nHe in fact aims for New York, with the intention of earning his living as a cab driver.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled The Razor's Edge about American with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Literary.. Start with the sentence 'The Razor's Edge: Maugham begins by characterizing his story as not really a novel but a thinly veiled true account'.
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conversations.value: The Razor's Edge: Maugham begins by characterizing his story as not really a novel but a thinly veiled true account.\nHe includes himself as a minor character, a writer who drifts in and out of the lives of the major players.\nLarry Darrell\'s lifestyle is contrasted throughout the book with that of his fiance\'s uncle, Elliott Templeton, an American expatriate living in Paris and a shallow and unrepentant yet generous snob.\nFor example, while Templeton\'s Roman Catholicism embraces the hierarchical trappings of the Church, Larry\'s proclivities tend towards the 13th-century Flemish mystic and saint John of Ruysbroeck.\nWounded and traumatized by the death of a comrade in the War, Larry returns to Chicago, Illinois, and his fiancée, Isabel Bradley, only to announce that he does not plan to seek paid employment and instead will "loaf" on his small inheritance.\nHe wants to delay their marriage and refuses to take up a job as a stockbroker offered to him by Henry Maturin, the father of his friend Gray.\nMeanwhile, Larry\'s childhood friend, Sophie, settles into a happy marriage, only later tragically losing her husband and baby in a car accident.\nLarry moves to Paris and immerses himself in study and bohemian life.\nAfter two years of this "loafing," Isabel visits and Larry asks her to join his life of wandering and searching, living in Paris and travelling with little money.\nShe cannot accept his vision of life and breaks their engagement to go back to Chicago.\nThere she marries the millionaire Gray, who provides her a rich family life.\nMeanwhile, Larry begins a sojourn through Europe, taking a job at a coal mine in Lens, France, where he befriends a former Polish army officer named Kosti.\nKosti\'s influence encourages Larry to look toward things spiritual for his answers rather than in books.\nLarry and Kosti leave the coal mine and travel together for a time before parting ways.\nLarry then meets a Benedictine monk named Father Ensheim in Bonn, Germany while Father Ensheim is on leave from his monastery doing academic research.\nAfter spending several months with the Benedictines and being unable to reconcile their conception of God with his own, Larry takes a job on an ocean liner and finds himself in Bombay.\nLarry has significant spiritual adventures in India and comes back to Paris.\nWhat he actually found in India and what he finally concluded are held back from the reader for a considerable time until, in a scene late in the book, Maugham discusses India and spirituality with Larry in a café long into the evening.\nHe starts off the chapter by saying "I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of the story as I have to tell, since for most part it is nothing more than the account of a conversation that I had with Larry.\nHowever, I should add that except for this conversation, I would perhaps not have thought it worthwhile to write this book.\n".\nMaugham then initiates the reader to \'Advaita philosophy\' and reveals how, through deep meditation and contact with Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi, cleverly disguised as Sri Ganesha in the novel, Larry goes on to realise God -- thus becoming a saint—in the process having gained liberation from the cycle of human suffering, birth and death that the rest of the earthly mortals are subject to.\nThe 1929 stock market crash has ruined Gray, and he and Isabel are invited to live in her uncle Elliott Templeton\'s grand Parisian house.\nGray is often incapacitated with agonising migraines due to a general nervous collapse.\nLarry is able to help him using an Indian form of hypnotic suggestion.\nSophie has also drifted to the French capital, where her friends find her reduced to alcohol, opium, and promiscuity – empty and dangerous liaisons that seem to help her to bury her pain.\nLarry first sets out to save her and then decides to marry her, a plan that displeases Isabel, who is still in love with him.\nIsabel tempts Sophie back into alcoholism with a bottle of Żubrówka, and she disappears from Paris.\nMaugham deduces this after seeing Sophie in Toulon, where she has returned to smoking opium and promiscuity.\nHe is drawn back into the tale when police interrogate him after Sophie has been found murdered with an inscribed book from him in her room, along with volumes by Baudelaire and Rimbaud.\nMeanwhile, in Antibes, Elliott Templeton is on his deathbed.\nDespite the fact that he has throughout his life compulsively sought out aristocratic society, none of his titled friends come to see him, which makes him alternately morose and irate.\nBut his outlook on death is somewhat positive: "I have always moved in the best society in Europe, and I have no doubt that I shall move in the best society in heaven".\nIsabel inherits his fortune, but genuinely grieves for her uncle.\nMaugham confronts her about Sophie, having figured out Isabel\'s role in Sophie\'s downfall.\nIsabel\'s only punishment will be that she will never get Larry, who has decided to return to America and live as a common working man.\nHe is uninterested in the rich and glamorous world that Isabel will move in.\nMaugham ends his narrative by suggesting that all the characters got what they wanted in the end: "Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position;.\nSophie death; and Larry happiness".
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conversations.value: The Razor's Edge
  We had been talking quite lightly, almost as if we were having a casual conversation about people we both knew but in whose affairs we were not intimately concerned, and even when she narrated to me her talk with Larry, Isabel had spoken with a sort of breezy gaiety, enlivening it with humor, as if she did not want me to take what she said too seriously. But now she went pale.
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conversations.value: It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. We went on talking for a few minutes in a dreary, embarrassed way. Then Sophie pushed back her chair.
  She pushed her way through the dancers and we lost sight of her in the crowd. I almost laughed at the icy scorn on Isabel's classic features. None of us said a word.
  I paid for our drinks and for Sophie's champagne and we trooped out. The crowd was on the dance floor and we got out without remark. It was after two, and to my mind time to go to bed, but Gray said he was hungry, so I suggested that we should go to Graf's in Montmartre and get something to eat. We were silent as we drove up. I sat beside Gray to direct him. We reached the garish restaurant. There were still people sitting on the terrace. We went in and ordered bacon and eggs and beer. Isabel, outwardly at least, had regained her composure. She congratulated me, somewhat ironically perhaps, on my acquaintance with the more disreputable parts of Paris.
  I threw my mind back. I had a recollection of a very young girl with blue eyes that were almost green and an attractive tilt to her head. Not pretty, but fresh and ingenuous with a mixture of shyness and pertness that I found amusing.
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conversations.value: For that was the disrespectful way in which she was accustomed to refer to the inhabitants of God's Own Country.