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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Classics
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author)

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 ISBN: 1598189077     ISBN-13: 9781598189070
Publisher: Aegypan
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2006
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Annotation: "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 consequences faced: hidden meanings emerge in places where we do not expect to find them. Perhaps, like Stephen Glennard in "The Touchstone," we will go mad with guilt, proving we do after all have a conscience. . . .
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance - General
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 1050(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.42 lbs) 124 pages
 
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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 consequences faced: hidden meanings emerge in places where we do not expect to find them. Perhaps, like Stephen Glennard in The Touchstone, we will go mad with guilt, proving we do after all have a conscience. . . .

Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt."
 
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