The Touchstone: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Touchstone is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Wharton, Edith (1862–1937).
Catalogue synopsis
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"The Touchstone" by Edith Wharton is a novella published in 1900. Stephen Glennard faces financial ruin and cannot afford to marry the woman he loves. In desperation, he sells intimate letters written to him by Margaret Aubyn, a now-deceased famous author who once pursued him. The sale brings wealth and marriage, but mounting guilt over his betrayal threatens to destroy everything he has gained through this act of treachery.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Touchstone
- Author credits: Wharton, Edith (1862–1937)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Love-letters -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Women novelists -- Fiction
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Novels
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