The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Title The Touchstone
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Touchstone_(novella)
Credits Produced by Judith Boss, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 71.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
Subject Married people -- Fiction
Subject Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Subject Women novelists -- Fiction
Subject Love-letters -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 267
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Feb 26, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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