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Original Title:	The Buccaneers
ISBN:	0140232028 (ISBN13: 9780140232028)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Annabel "Nan" St. George, Virginia "Jinny" St. George, Conchita "Connie" Closson, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Elmsworth

The Buccaneers

Edith Wharton

Paperback | Pages: 406 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 5517 Users | 401 Reviews

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Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure.

Nan's new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate beauty, but also the money that New York's nouveaux riches can supply.

A love story of love and marriage among the old and new moneyed classes, The Buccaneers is a delicately perceptive portrayal of a world on the brink of change.

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Title	:	The Buccaneers
Author	:	Edith Wharton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 406 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance

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I was already a fan of Wharton going into this book. She writes so beautifully and has such interesting characters. She certainly captures this particular period of time well. She wrote what she knew, and her own life experiences certainly play a role in parts of this story. I adored the first 29 chapters that she wrote. It reminded me a little of Downtown Abbey. Its such a shame that she died and did not finish the book though. While I know that Mainwaring was an expert on Wharton and followed

The Buccaneers is Edith Whartons last and uncompleted novel. She had written approximately 89,000 words before her death and the novel was printed in its incomplete form by her publisher. In 1993 Marion Mainwaring, a noted Wharton scholar, completed the story, in line with notes that Wharton had left behind. She did a good job, since there is no obvious break in the voice between the beginning of the book and the end, but it seems clear to me that no one, even a great scholar, could ever know

Half way through and I can't listen to this story any longer. It is so, so boring.

"First, the Romans had come. Then the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. Then the Danes terrorized England for three centuries. Norman pirates took the country over in 1066. Five centuries later Turks raided the Thames and took prisoners to sell in the Libyan slave-market But never had there been any phenomenon to match this this invasion of England by American women and their chiefs of commissariat, the silent American men"This is by no means a high seas adventure story and you wont find any

This book was finished by another author and frankly I just skimmed at end. I love Edith Wharton's writing but I think it was a mistake to let someone else finish this book. I thought the difference in writing styles was very obvious and it was a big let-down. The writing that I take to be Mainwaring's reads like a bad period romance.

I really enjoyed reading this book and found it to be a very fast read. I was interested in it because I watched the BBC dramatization - which was heavily Americanized & modernized as it turns out. My chief exposure to Edith Wharton was the very short and quite depressing "Ethan Frome." I found that to be written in quite an impenetrable style and was turned off of her for years - until I saw the film and came across a copy of the book in a used bookstore.The way she writes in "The

I've fallen in love, readers!It took me about 12 hours from start to finish to read the last of Wharton's novels, left unfinished for decades and then completed in Wharton's style by scholar Marion Mainwaring. As I mentioned earlier, I've watched the PBS series three times now and there's something about it that gets to me. Perhaps because it's sexier and funnier and looser than what one would expect from the era, and because [SPOILER ALERT:] its ending which actually arises from Wharton's