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The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

 
9781847497932: The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847497934 ISBN 13: 9781847497932
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, 2019

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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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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Trade
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847497934
ISBN 13 
9781847497932
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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