Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.”
Nan and Jinny St. George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure.
Nan’s new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses, and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate beauty, but also the money that New York’s nouveaux riches can supply.
A story of love and marriage among the old and new moneyed classes, The Buccaneers is a delicately perceptive portrayal of a world on the brink of change.
Read Alikes for The Buccaneers: The Social Graces by Renee Rosen; To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.”
Nan and Jinny St. George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure.
Nan’s new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses, and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate beauty, but also the money that New York’s nouveaux riches can supply.
A story of love and marriage among the old and new moneyed classes, The Buccaneers is a delicately perceptive portrayal of a world on the brink of change.
Read Alikes for The Buccaneers: The Social Graces by Renee Rosen; To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
ISBN 0-670-85219-8
Edith Wharton
1993
