The Touchstone

Author(s): Edith Wharton

Genre(s): General Fiction, Romance

Narrators: Elizabeth Klett

Number of Chapters: 14

Length: 2 hours and 40 minutes

Language: English

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by Margaret Aubyn, a famous and recently deceased author, and he still has her passionate love letters to him. Glennard removes his name from the letters and sells them, making him a fortune and building a marriage based on the betrayal of another. (Summary by Wikipedia)