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(3.82) | 102 | 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.… (més) |
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua. This presentation of The Buccaneers is dedicated
to the memory of Edith Wharton
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to Matther Imrie
with special thanks
to Mary Pitlick, who identified the buccaneers,
to Nan Graham, to Chritina Ward, and to David and
Dorothy Mainwaring.
M.M.
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua. When [the Duke of Tintagel] was a little boy his secret longing had been to be a clock-maker; or rather (since their fabrication might have been too delicate a business) a man who sold clocks and sat among them in his little shop, watching them, doctoring them, taking their temperature, feeling their pulse, listening to their chimes, oiling, setting, and regulating them. The then Lord Ushant had never avowed this longing to his parents; even in petticoats he had understood that a future duke can never hope to keep a clock-shop. But often, wandering through the great saloons and interminable galleries of Longlands and Tintagel, he had said to himself with a beating heart: "Some day I'll wind all those clocks myself, every Sunday morning, before breakfast." His mind rapidly reviewed the plunder, pillage, sack, and rapine of his native land throughout the course of history. First, the Romans had come. Then the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. Then the Danes terrorized England for three centuries. Norman countries took the country over in 1066. Five centuries later Turks raided the Thames and took prisoners to sell in the Libyan slave-market ... But never had there been any phenomenon to match this, this -- he recalled an article -- this "invasion of England by Amerian women and their chiefs of commissariat, the silent American men ..." "What a gang of buccaneers you are!" he breathed to his wife. | |
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua. There are at least three versions of this novel: the unfinished novel as Wharton left it, and two versions with independent continuations: Mainwaring's (1993), and the BBC's (1995). All three would seem to be substantially different and warrant their own works. | |
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▾Descripcions del llibre 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. ▾Descripcions provinents de biblioteques No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. ▾Descripció dels membres de LibraryThing |
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Laura Testvalley is my favorite character; I just wish we could learn more about her and her life, as I think she is more interesting than any of her charges, including Nan. We're talking about Dante Rossetti's first cousin here........why does she not have fascinating stories about him? Because they would be inappropriate for the young lady characters who are the focus of this book? Well, yes, but as a huge fan of almost everything inappropriate I would have liked that better. (