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The Touchstone

by Edith Wharton

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First published
1900
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Read by Elizabeth Klett · 2 h 40 min · 14 parts

  1. 01 - Chapter 01

    10:34

  2. 02 - Chapter 02

    17:23

  3. 03 - Chapter 03

    7:38

  4. 04 - Chapter 04

    16:05

  5. 05 - Chapter 05

    11:21

  6. 06 - Chapter 06

    15:03

  7. 07 - Chapter 07

    12:05

  8. 08 - Chapter 08

    14:05

  9. 09 - Chapter 09

    6:59

  10. 10 - Chapter 10

    9:56

  11. 11 - Chapter 11

    4:26

  12. 12 - Chapter 12

    11:33

  13. 13 - Chapter 13

    14:28

  14. 14 - Chapter 14

    8:55

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In a club overlooking a rain-streaked Fifth Avenue, Glennard reads a request for letters by the celebrated novelist Margaret Aubyn. Money worries have made marriage to Alexa Trent seem increasingly difficult, and the notice turns his thoughts toward a painful earlier attachment. He possesses hundreds of Aubyn's letters, reminders of her affection and of his own troubled response to it.

Published in 1900, Edith Wharton's psychological novel examines the tension between a writer's public reputation and the feelings entrusted to private correspondence. A later domestic scene finds Glennard uneasy as his wife takes up a published collection of Aubyn's letters. Her interest in the author brings his past into their conversation, while his retreat to the study leaves him absorbed in thoughts of her reading. Small social exchanges reveal pride, regret and uncertainty within a marriage. The book offers readers a study of conscience built around the intimate meaning of another person's words.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into the New York society she spent a career anatomising, and her first book was about interior decoration rather than fiction: The Decoration of Houses, written in 1897 with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.

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First published
1900
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
61
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Elizabeth Klett