The buccaneers - edith wharton

Finally finished by writer Marion Mainwaring, Edith Whartons timeless story is as riveting today as any written in her own time.

Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls whose money is too new to get them into society.

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 charming--and 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.