The Touchstone
                                            
                            By Edith Wharton
                            
                                12 Sep, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York.
Stephen Glennard, the novel’s protagonist, is suddenly impoverished and unable to marry the woman he loves. He sel
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                                                The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York.
Stephen Glennard, the novel’s protagonist, is suddenly impoverished and unable to marry the woman he loves. He sells the private letters a former admirer had written to him before she had become a famous author. He is later overcome by guilt for betraying one who had loved him. Less