The touchstone

[a story]

155 pages

English language

Published May 8, 1900 by C. Scribner's Sons.

OCLC Number:
297310

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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.

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Subjects

  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
  • Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
  • Women novelists -- Fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Love-letters -- Fiction