The Touchstone by Edith Wharton Fiction Literary Classics

<p><strong>The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella and it's spare perhaps even underwritten.</strong> 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 The Touchstone we will go mad with guilt proving we do after all have a conscience. . . .</p>