Edith Wharton

Touchstone (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another's love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret's memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave.The first of Edith Wharton's works depicting life in "e;old New York"e;, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella, and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alma Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780714549576
• Artikelnr.: 60863695

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of more than forty books including timeless classics such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and is now widely recognised as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Jonas Dovydenas' photographs have appeared in Time, American Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, Soldier of Fortune, and others. He has been a Trustee of Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. for many years.

Rezensionen

They [Edith Wharton and Henry James] are giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature. Gore Vidal