The Razor's Edge UBL Literary Award for Urdu Translation (2015) and portraits of the remarkable

and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world’s most difficult codes

A Goat's Song conjures the contrasting landscapes and opposing myths of a nation divided

We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism

A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them

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The Razor's Edge UBL Literary Award for Urdu Translation (2015) and portraits of the remarkableLarry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters his fiance 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