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The Touchstone
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Conlin, Grace (Read by)
ISBN: 0786161590     ISBN-13: 9780786161591
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $24.30  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: October 2007
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Annotation: To raise money for his forthcoming wedding, young lawyer Stephen Glennard sells a package of love letters written to him by another woman. But a mystery contained in the missives comes back to haunt him.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.84" W x 6.28" (0.46 lbs)
 
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Publisher Description:

This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to selling the letters. His decision brings him wealth and admission to society, but a mystery contained in the missives comes back to haunt him, and it may take a madness of guilt to remind Stephen that he does, after all, have a conscience.

Betrayal, greed, and consequences faced make this sly, masterful story a deft social and psychological portrait to stand with Wharton's best.


Contributor Bio(s): Conlin, Grace: -

Grace Conlin (1962-1997) was the recording name of Grainne Cassidy, an award-winning actress and acclaimed narrator. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammoth's production of Savage in Limbo.

Wharton, Edith: -

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer. Her novels The Age of Innocence and Old New York were each awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction.