The Touchstone by Edith Wharton Fiction Literary Classics

<p><em>The Touchstone</em> was Edith Wharton's first published novella and it's spare perhaps even underwritten. Even so this Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing even dangerous qualities -- it has betrayals greed and consequences faced: hidden meanings emerge in places where we do not expect to find them. Perhaps like Stephen Glennard in <em>The Touchstone</em> we will go mad with guilt proving we do after all have a conscience. . . .</p>