The Touchstone
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Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee. He unearths the passionate love-letters written to him by the famous, now-deceased author Margaret Aubyn, and sells them, erasing only his name. He makes a fortune from the betrayal and begins his marriage from it.The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella.
FictionMarried peopleWomen novelistsRejection (Psychology)Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fictionLove-lettersWomen authorsMan-woman relationships, fictionMarriage, fictionFiction, psychologicalAuthors, fictionMarried people, fiction