The Touchstone

Wharton, Edith

ISBN 10: 006097379X / ISBN 13: 9780060973797

Published by HarperCollins, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Touchstone
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006097379X
• ISBN 13: 9780060973797
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Selling a packet of love letters written to him over the years by a distinguished novelist, young lawyer Stephen Glennard regrets his actions when the secret comes back to haunt him

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American novelist and short-story writer, was born in New York City. Strongly influenced by Henry James, she is best known for her subtle and su-perbly crafted studies of the tragedies and ironies in the lives of members of middle-class and artistocratic New York soci-ety in the the nineteenth century. She was educated in New York and Europe, and married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885. When her husband became mentally ill, she cared for him until 1913, when she settled permanently in France and divorced him. Among her best and most characteristic works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received a Pultizer prize.