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The Touchstone
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Edith Wharton's novella follows a man who secretly sells the private love letters of a celebrated woman writer who once loved him, using the proceeds to fund his marriage, and then confronts the moral cost. Readers interested in Wharton, moral psychology, and turn-of-the-century American literature will find it rewarding.
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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