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Edith Whartons spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of societynow an original series on AppleTV

Brave lively engaginga fairytale novel miraculouly returned to lifeThe New York Times Book Review

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 charmingand 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