The Razor's Edge advances Maugham's art of fiction in two significant ways. He continues to rely heavily on natural dialogue and dramatic encounters, but as he was living in the United States while writing the novel, he makes use of Americans for characters.
Stylistically, this means American speech, just as in Liza of Lambeth (1897) his characters spoke Cockney dialect.
Maugham's most ambitious attempt to record American speech is especially apparent in the colloquial expressions of Gray Maturin.
A further development concerns the method of narration. From the early 1920s, Maugham used in his fiction either a.....
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