The Touchstone. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9789176378359

The Touchstone. E-book. Formato EPUB. The Touchstone is a novella, written by Edith Wharton in 1900; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.