"Brave, lively, engaging . . . a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life." —The New York Times Book ReviewEdith Wharton''s spellbinding final novel, telling a story of love in the gilded age that crossed the boundaries of society, soon to be an Apple Original Series on Apple TV+ 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