The Touchstone
by:
Edith Wharton (author)
A young lawyer sells a package of love letters written to him over the years by a distinquished novelist to raise money to pay for his wedding to another woman. His secret comes back to haunt him and, when he confesses to his wife, their marriage is reduced to resigned coexistence.
A young lawyer sells a package of love letters written to him over the years by a distinquished novelist to raise money to pay for his wedding to another woman. His secret comes back to haunt him and, when he confesses to his wife, their marriage is reduced to resigned coexistence.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780974607863 (097460786X)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
Wharton's first long story/novella. Very quick listen on Librivox. Didn't manage to draw me in at all nor did I feel any sympathy for the characters. Just very cold story that should have been brimming with some kind of palpable anguish or any feeling whatsoever. Didn't work for me, but the languag...
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