Henry Channon
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Sir Henry Channon, known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative Party politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling t
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The Razor's Edge
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The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcende
Henry Channon
…the author of Channon's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) claims that Elliot Templeton in W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge (1944) and the disappointed schoolmaster Crocker-Harris in Terence Rattigan's play The Browning Version (1948) were partly inspired by Channon. Among…
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1946 hardcover edition promoting the first film adaptation