



FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2003
Copyright © 1943, 1944 by McCall Corporation
Copyright © 1944 by W. Somerset Maugham
Copyright renewed 1971, 1972 by Elizabeth Mary Lady Glendevon
All rights reserved under
International and Pan-American copyright conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, in 1944.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874–1965.
The razor’s edge, a novel / W. Somerset Maugham.
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1944.
p. cm.
PR6025.A86 R3 1944
eISBN: 978-0-307-78508-4
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