The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
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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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Fiction, Married people, Women novelists, Rejection (Psychology), Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Love-letters, Women authors, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Fiction, psychological, Authors, fiction, Married people, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literatureShowing 11 featured editions. View all 47 editions?
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"Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to state that he will be greatly indebted to any of the famous novelist's friends who will furnish him with information concerning the period previous to her coming to England."
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