{"product_id":"the-buccaneers-paperback","title":"The Buccaneers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarion Mainwaring\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brave, lively, engaging . . . a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdith Wharton's spellbinding final novel, telling a story of love in the gilded age that crossed the boundaries of society, soon to be an Apple Original Series on Apple TV+ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Buccaneers\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Wharton's death in 1937, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"If it could have been completed, \u003ci\u003eThe Buccaneers\u003c\/i\u003e would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels.\" Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe upper stratum of New York society into which \u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889. Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, the Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1911). In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France. Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Custom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas published in 1913 and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In all, she wrote some 30 books, including an autobiography, \u003ci\u003eA Backward Glance\u003c\/i\u003e (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarion Mainwaring\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-2015) was an Edith Wharton scholar most notable for having completed Wharton's unfinished manuscript \u003ci\u003eThe Buccaneers \u003c\/i\u003ein 1993. In addition to her research focused on Wharton, Mainwaring also published several original works including the novels \u003ci\u003eMurder in Pastiche: Or Nine Detectives All at Sea \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMurder at Midyears\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a biography on Wharton's lover, \u003ci\u003eMysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715714183501,"sku":"9780140232028","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/NjF3RlZZcXkrQTlpeTlDVWkxcEJnZz09.webp?v=1762410031","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-buccaneers-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}