The Touchstone #1018294

In this piercing and elegant novella, Edith Wharton explores the corrosive price of betrayal and the possibility of moral redemption. Desperate for the money needed to marry the high-minded Alexa Trent, impoverished New York lawyer Stephen Glennard secretly sells the private, impassioned love letters written to him by a renowned deceased author. When the sensational book becomes a public scandal, his inner guilt threatens to destroy his marriage.