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The buccaneers a novel

Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's 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 Wharton's 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 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.

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  • "Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's 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 Wharton's 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 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."@en
  • "When the wealthy St. George girls and their friends are rejected by New York society because their bloodlines are too short, they go to England and make superb marriages, but Nan St. George finds that being a duchess does not necessarily bring happiness."@en
  • "Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of InnocenceAfter Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor"@en
  • "Five American girls, denied access to 1870s New York society due to the newness of their wealth, go to England to marry into the cash-hungry aristocracy."
  • "Wealthy young American girls visit England and lay siege to the hearts of members of the nobility."@en
  • "Wealthy young American girls visit England and lay siege to the hearts of members of the nobility."
  • "Unable to break elite New York society because of their nouveau riche backgrounds, five young American belles set sail for England to launch themselves into the London season and an unsuspecting English aristocracy."@en
  • "Story of American beauties questing for British titles and the dukes, lords, and marquesses of England questing for American dollars in late nineteenth century New York."
  • "Saratoga and New York City society in the '70's and '80's."
  • "Au siècle dernier, trois familles américaines, les Saint-George, les Clossom et les Elmsworth, qui ne parviennent pas à s'intégrer dans la société new-yorkaise, décident de tenter leur chance en Angleterre. Inachevé à la mort de l'auteure, ce roman, d'abord publié tel quel en 1938, est remanié par. M. Mainwaring en 1993 à partir des notes laissées par E. Wharton.--[Memento]."
  • "From the author of the Age of Innocence."@en
  • "Nan and Virginia St. George have the great good luck to be born beautiful and wealthy - the two qualities prized above all others in 1870s New York - but the insurmountably bad luck to come from "new money." Shunned by the snobbish guardians of Manhattan society, the lively girls still attract many admirers, but no offers of marriage from eligible men - the grail pursued discreetly but with single-minded intensity by all young women of polite birth (and their mothers). Their spirited governess, Laura Testvalley, determines to launch these buccaneers in London society, whose impoverished aristocracy, groaning under the burdens of massive country estates, are only too willing to trade a title for a fortune. But the earls and lords have failed to reckon with the strong wills of the buccaneers - especially exquisite Nan's. She dares to hope for more than position and wealth: a genuine, enduring love is what she craves, and she's willing to sacrifice everything she's attained for something true and real. Edith Wharton's novel pits tradition against vitality and change in a lushly romantic tale, observed with all her characteristic elegance and wit."@en

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  • "Large print books"@en
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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"
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  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Jovens rebeldes"
  • "The Buccaneers. [Edited by Gaillard T. Lapsley.]"@en
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