The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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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