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Wharton, Edith

 
9780486852713: The Touchstone (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486852717 ISBN 13: 9780486852713
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2024

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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 discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn. Glennard’s psychological anguish as he grapples with his guilt and the repercussions of his actions presents a poignant narrative of human conscience and morality.

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Edith Wharton was an American novelist, playwright and essayist who chronicled upper class New England society. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Her novels include Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, and The House of Mirth.

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Edith Wharton is the renowned author of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome, and she was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. Published in 1900, prior to her better-known works, The Touchstone explores the emotional complexities of love and betrayal.
 
Penniless and unable to marry the woman he adores, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn. Glennard’s psychological anguish as he grapples with his guilt and the repercussions of his actions presents a poignant narrative of conscience and morality that maintains its relevance in the twenty-first century.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486852717
ISBN 13 
9780486852713
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Anzahl der Seiten
80
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