The
Buccaneers
by
Edith Wharton
Completed by Marion Mainwaring
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BOOK DESCRIPTION FROM DUST
JACKET:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a bestseller in her own day, Edith
Wharton was the premier chronicles of society – its manners and mores – from
the turn of the century through the 1930’s. In the Buccaneers, her last
novel, she created two of her finest female characters: the young romantic
Nan St. George and her English governess, Laura Testvalley, whom Wharton’s
biographer R. W. B. Lewis calls “so richly complex a person, endowed with so
much humanity, that she threatens to run away with the narrative.
The novel opens at the height of the 1876 racing season in Saratoga, New
York, where mothers with new money assess their daughter’s competition in
the marriage market. It moves to London, where the St. George and Elmsworth
girls go because the rigid guardians of American Society will not accept
them. The dukes, lords, and marquesses of England, on the other hand, are
delighted not only with the girl’s beauty but with their father’s bounty –
just what is needed to revitalize impoverished British estates. It is Miss
Testvalley who suggests the journey abroad, and she who recognizes that Nan
– though less beautiful than her sister and less finished than her friends –
has the capacity to love, deeply and defiantly. The novel closes with a
romance that violates convention on both sides of the ocean.
Death ended Edith Wharton’s work on a novel which might have been her
masterpiece, said Times magazine in 1938. Now, Marion Mainwaring has
completed the story, meticulously and imaginatively following Wharton’s
directions. The result is a book any Wharton enthusiast will celebrate and
any romantic reader will love—a rich, beautifully nuanced classic for all
time.
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 into an old, moneyed American family. She
married unhappily and then turned to writing, publishing more than forty
books, including short stories, poetry, war reportage, travel writing, and
her renowned novels, among them The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth,
Ethan Frome, and Summer. An expatriate, she died in France in 1937. Marian
Mainwaring has studied the work of Edith Wharton for several decades and
assisted R.W.B. Lewis in researching his award winning biography. Author of
Murder in Pastiche, she lives in Boston.
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