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About The Touchstone The Touchstone is a novella by American author Edith Wharton, first published in 1900 in the US. ' In the retrospective light shed by the letters he was blinded to their specific meaning. He was not a man who concerned himself with literature, and they had... Read Full Overview

Published in 1900, eleven years prior to her masterpiece Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's novella The Touchstone explores the emotional complexities of love and betrayal. Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard... Read Full Overview

The Touchstone

Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness. The story of a young man who scorns the love of a tortured novelist, only to have her words come back to haunt him from the dead, The Touchstone shows off the skills Wharton... Read Full Overview

The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella, and it's spare, perhaps even underwritten. Even so, this Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing, even dangerous qualities -- it has betrayals, greed, and... Read Full Overview

This book contains Edith Wharton's first novella and the second book she ever wrote, 'The Touchstone'. This narrative follows Stephen Glennard, a young man whose destitution leads him into a dubious money-making scheme which he embarks on so that he can afford to marry the woman... Read Full Overview

"The Touchstone", by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton was pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer (1862-1937).

The Touchstone, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This... Read Full Overview

In Edith Wharton's ""The Touchstone,"" the protagonist, Stephen Glennard, is a struggling writer who discovers a cache of unpublished works of his late lover, seeing an opportunity to escape his financial woes, Glennard decides to publish these works under his own name, leading... Read Full Overview

"The Touchstone" by Edith Wharton explores the complexities of love, social class, and ethical compromise through the lens of psychological fiction. This rediscovered literary work delves into a profound moral dilemma when valuable love letters become a commodity. Driven by... Read Full Overview

Un hombre atrapado entre el deseo y la moralidad, c mo puede encontrar su verdadero camino? Ambientada en la alta sociedad neoyorquina de principios del siglo XX, La Piedra de Toque de Edith Wharton nos sumerge en un mundo donde las apariencias y las expectativas sociales dictan... Read Full Overview

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The Touchstone is a novella by the American writer and novelist Edith Wharton that follows the story of the lawyer Stephen Glennard. In the beginning of the narrative, Glennard finds himself impecunious and unable to afford to marry his beautiful fianc e, Alexa Trent. In desperation,... Read Full Overview