The Touchstone

by Edith Wharton Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by Margaret Aubyn, a famous and recently deceased author, and he still has her passionate love letters to him. Glennard removes his name from the letters and sells them, making him a fortune and building a marriage based on the betrayal of another. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

Wharton's 1900 novel is a money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Down-on-his-luck Stephen Glennard sells a collection of letters from a celebrated dead author. His decision to market the letters gets him money and an entrance into society, but a mystery contained in the missives haunts him. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

From the Publisher

They [Edith Wharton and Henry James] are giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature.” —Gore Vidal

Dial

A very unsual and brillant short novel in which a singular situation is worked out with that searching accuracy and psychological detail which characterized Mrs. Wharton’s short stories.”

biographer R. W. B. Lewis

The Touchstone is without doubt expertly written, and it contains a number of the beautifully articulated insights into the ambiguities of the moral life at which Edith Wharton was becoming a master.”

Atlantic

A forgotten Edith Wharton gem.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169129755
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014

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