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The Touchstone

Edith Wharton

1991104 pagesabout 2 hours
1991
first published
  • 2004Melville House Pub. · 124 pages · ENGISBN 9780974607863
  • 2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 104 pagesISBN 9781717418845
  • 2019Independently published · 109 pagesISBN 9781686976605
  • 1991Harpercollins · ENGISBN 9780060973797
  • 1991Borgo Pr · ENGISBN 9780809590346
  • 2003Hesperus Press · 112 pages · ENGISBN 9781843910664
  • 2007Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786161591
  • 2007Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786161607

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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