Name: The Touchstone by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Classics
SKU: 56600183
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781598183733

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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Classics

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Aegypan

Language

English

Pages

124

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.1 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9781598183733

Synopsis "The Touchstone by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Classics"

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. . . .

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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