Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—now an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review 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.
Maggie Wadey Libri
Maggie Wadey è una romanziera e sceneggiatrice la cui opera è informata da un ricco arazzo di esperienze. La sua scrittura si addentra in temi umani profondi e nella psicologia dei personaggi, offrendo ai lettori scorci acuti delle loro vite interiori. Wadey intreccia magistralmente narrazioni complesse con sensibili ritratti dei personaggi, creando esperienze letterarie memorabili. La sua capacità di immergere i lettori in una storia, spingendoli al contempo a riflettere sulle complessità della vita, definisce il suo approccio distintivo.
