Product Description
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. . . .
About the Author
American novelist Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) is known for her finely crafted stories of New York mores, including The Age of Innocence. Salley Vickers is a writer, lecturer and psychologist and a regular speaker at literary conferences. Her novel Miss Garnet's Angel was hugely successful and she has recently followed this with the best-selling Instances of the Number Three.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
