The Touchstone

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Married people,  Women novelists,  Rejection (Psychology),  Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fiction,  Love-letters,  Women authors,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Marriage, fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Authors, fiction,  Married people, fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  American literature,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations)