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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton audiobook. 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...
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Show Notes
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Genre: drama
In turn-of-the-century New York, Stephen Glennard is a promising but faltering man of letters with one urgent desire: to marry Alexa Trent, the gracious woman he loves. But with his career slipping and money running out, Stephen finds himself trapped between respectability and desperation. A tempting opportunity appears when he realizes he still possesses a cache of intensely personal letters written to him by Margaret Aubyn, a celebrated author who is now dead and newly idolized by the literary world. Publishing such a correspondence could bring a fortune - and it would be easy to hide his own connection to it. Yet the choice forces Stephen to measure what, exactly, he is willing to trade for comfort, status, and a future with Alexa. As the letters begin to circulate, their intimate voice draws readers in and throws Stephen into a tightening web of secrecy, shame, and self-justification. Edith Wharton turns a seemingly simple act into a piercing moral drama about ambition, betrayal, and the cost of building a life on another person's most private truths.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:10:34) Chapter 02
(00:27:57) Chapter 03
(00:35:36) Chapter 04
(00:51:42) Chapter 05
(01:03:05) Chapter 06
(01:18:11) Chapter 07
(01:30:19) Chapter 08
(01:44:24) Chapter 09
(01:51:23) Chapter 10
(02:01:20) Chapter 11
(02:05:46) Chapter 12
(02:17:19) Chapter 13
(02:31:47) Chapter 14
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