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Edith Whartons spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of societynow an original series on AppleTV+!

Brave, lively, engaginga fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to New York Times Book Review

Set in the 1870s, the same period as Whartons The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charmingand their wealth extremely useful.

After Whartons death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Whartons novels. Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Whartons own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.

Author: Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1994
Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780140232028
Language: English