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"The Touchstone is without doubt expertly written, and it contains a number of the
beautifully articulated insights into the ambiguities of the moral life at which Edith Wharton was becoming
a master."R. W. B. Lewis, biographer
This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard,
a lawyer, is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned, but
now famous, lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to
another woman, Stephen stoops to sell the letters. His decision brings him wealth and admission to society,
but a mystery contained in the missives comes back to haunt him, and it may take a madness of guilt to
remind Stephen that he does, after all, have a conscience.
Betrayal, greed, and consequences faced make this sly, masterful story a deft social and psychological portrait
to stand with Wharton's best.
Death of Arthur, TheWritten By - Sir Thomas MaloryNarrated By - Philip MadocPublished By - NAXOSLength - 4 hoursCategories - Classic Literature
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Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2Written By - Sir Thomas MaloryNarrated By - Frederick DavidsonPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncLength - 17 hours 30 minutesCategories - Classic LiteratureDownload Price - $33.95
" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in,
delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
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Diary of Samuel Pepys, TheWritten By - Samuel PepysNarrated By - Michael MaloneyPublished By - NAXOSLength - 4 hoursCategories - Classic Literature
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Hard TimesWritten By - Charles DickensNarrated By - Frederick DavidsonPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncLength - 11 hours 30 minutesCategories - Classic LiteratureDownload Price - $23.95
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised without love and affection, and the consequences are devastating. See full description...
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