The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Scribner 1909
ISBN/ASIN: 1598183737
Number of pages: 124
Description:
An early but accomplished work by Edith Wharton, The Touchstone is a tale of money and moral compromise, and foreshadows some of the best novels of her later life. Stephen Glennard, an impoverished lawyer in the glamorous, money-driven society of New York, has one valuable possession: the letters written to him by the eminent and now-deceased author Margaret Aubyn...
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