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Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another’s love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret’s memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave. The first of Edith Wharton’s works depicting life in “old New York”, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

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They [Edith Wharton and Henry James] are giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature. -- Gore Vidal

The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics

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      Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 21/03/2019
      ISBN13: 9781847497932, 978-1847497932
      ISBN10: 1847497934
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another’s love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret’s memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave. The first of Edith Wharton’s works depicting life in “old New York”, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

      Trade Review
      They [Edith Wharton and Henry James] are giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature. -- Gore Vidal

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