The Buccaneers

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THE CANEERS Published for the first time as a complete work, The Buccaneers is Edith Wharton's last növel and a comic tour de force. Certainly the two sisters made an imsistible pair. The Assembjy ladiés might ignore their existence, but the young men did not; and there were jolly little dinners and get) theatre parties in plenty to console the exiled beauties. Still it was bittér to be kft out of all the most exclusive entertainments, to have not a sing/e invitation to Newport to be unbidden to the Opera on fashionable nights... - and it was then that Miss Testvalley made her bold suggestion... Denied entry to New York society because their parents' money is too new, Virginia and Nan St George sail for England on the advice of their governess - the incomparable Miss Testvalley (cousin to artist Dante Gábriel Rossetti) - to try instead a London Season. In England, the girls' beauty and wealth charm the aristocrats who come within their sights. Before long their new names and the... Tovább

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THE CANEERS Published for the first time as a complete work, The Buccaneers is Edith Wharton's last növel and a comic tour de force. Certainly the two sisters made an imsistible pair. The Assembjy ladiés might ignore their existence, but the young men did not; and there were jolly little dinners and get) theatre parties in plenty to console the exiled beauties. Still it was bittér to be kft out of all the most exclusive entertainments, to have not a sing/e invitation to Newport to be unbidden to the Opera on fashionable nights... - and it was then that Miss Testvalley made her bold suggestion... Denied entry to New York society because their parents' money is too new, Virginia and Nan St George sail for England on the advice of their governess - the incomparable Miss Testvalley (cousin to artist Dante Gábriel Rossetti) - to try instead a London Season. In England, the girls' beauty and wealth charm the aristocrats who come within their sights. Before long their new names and the tides that go with them guarantee that they will never be so disadvantaged again. But at what cost? No one appreciates or understands the absurdities and snobberies of nineteenth-century society and manners better than Edith Wharton. In The Buccaneers she exploits the clash of old and new money, of American and English society to create her wittiest and most sardonic masterpiece. Vissza