The Touchstone

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, George Bellows and D. Howard Hitchcock. A man sells the love letters a famous dead novelist wrote him — anonymously, for the money to marry — and then must live inside the marriage the money bought. Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, published this novella in 1900; it is the earliest statement...