124 pages
English language
Published May 7, 2004 by Melville House Pub..
The touchstone
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Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee. He unearths the passionate love-letters written to him by the famous, now-deceased author Margaret Aubyn, and sells them, erasing only his name. He makes a fortune from the betrayal and begins his marriage from it.The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella.
Subjects
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Women novelists -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Love-letters -- Fiction