{"product_id":"9781612192413","title":"The Touchstone","description":"\u003cb\u003eGlennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of a young man who scorns the love of a tortured novelist, only to have her words come back to haunt him from the dead, \u003ci\u003eThe Touchstone\u003c\/i\u003e shows off the skills Wharton became famous for in novels such as \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, particularly her piercing and delicious talent for satiric observation. But despite its masterly control, this startlingly modern tale is also a simmering, rebel cri de coeur unleashed by a writer who was herself unappreciated in her own time. The combination of these attributes make this edgy novella a moving and suspenseful homage to the power of literature itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135334891760,"sku":"9781612192413","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612192413_p0.jpg?v=1763841176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612192413","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}