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File Size: 745 KB
Print Length: 418 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 1, 1994)
Publication Date: October 1, 1994
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B001KPZ2MA
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Movies often don't do justice to the original material and I believe this is true for The Buccaneers. After seeing the movie I was a bit wary about reading the book, but I'm glad I took the chance and hope this review encourages others to do the same.The story concerns five American heiresses – Conchita Closson; Virginia and Annabel "Nan" St. George; and Lizzie and Mabel Elmsworth – who are unable to gain entrée into the upper echelons of American society because their families' wealth comes from "new money." So the girls are introduced into English society with the assistance of Conchita, who has married the younger son of a marquess, and their governess, Miss Testvalley, whose previous posts included some of the noble families now on the girls' radar.The Buccaneers was only about 2/3 complete when Edith Wharton died in 1937, and though her notes were not extensive they did include a synopsis of the main story lines. Marion Mainwaring completed Wharton's book in the 1990s, around the same time that the movie was being made. Both achieved the end result that Wharton intended but Mainwaring's version is superior in every way, building as she did on the foundation Wharton had laid without subordinating or supplanting it.***SPOILERS***Though the basic framework of the movie and the book are the same, the movie introduced several significant deviations that not only detracted from the story Wharton was trying to tell but turned it into soap opera fodder, i.e., Wharton never said or suggested that the Duke was sexually attracted to men, or that he consummated the marriage by raping Nan; the reason Conchita needed money was to pay off her and her husband's debts, not to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, and her husband did not have a venereal disease; and Guy never actually occupied a political perch from which to give revolutionary speeches. Nan left the Duke in both renditions but the movie's handling of this event was painfully anachronistic whereas Mainwaring's depiction fits more credibly with the place, the time and the characters that Wharton described.In both book and movie Nan is the heroine of the piece, an endearing character whose romantic nature has been nurtured by her governess, mentor and friend, Miss Testvalley. The book effectively conveys why this was such a recipe for disaster: meeting the Duke among the "magical" ruins of his Cornish castle, Tintagel, Nan imbued him with qualities he simply did not possess. He was not a bad man, just so rigidly traditional and unimaginative that he didn't know how to function outside of strict order and ritual. Even his restoration of Tintagel lacked any hint of romanticism or whimsy - he considered it a "costly folly" that he was obligated to finish only because it had been started by his father.The Duke fell in love with Nan (as much as he was capable) because of her "childish innocence, her indifference to money and honours", but he never gave a single thought to how stifling the rigid rules, the pomp and ceremony of life as he and his family lived it, were to the very qualities in Nan that first attracted him. She was simply expected to adapt. And she might well have done so in a less stagnant, emotionally stifling setting, such as the vastly different environment she later found at Lady Glenloe's home. But the Duke and his mother, the Dowager Duchess, had been firmly inculcated in the supremacy of tradition ("It has always been like that"), and they were as intolerant of the smallest suggestion of change as they were of Nan's "asking the reason of things that have nothing to do with reasons." So, for example, Nan was surprised by the radiant Correggio paintings ("those happy pagans") hanging on the walls of her boudoir, a room previously occupied by the Dowager Duchess, until she realized the Dowager would have considered displacing the paintings to be the more subversive act.Mainwaring picks up Wharton's thread at the point where Nan is on an extended visit to the Glenloe family. Miss Testvalley is now employed there, and Guy and his father are near neighbors and regular visitors. Guy had recently agreed to become the Duke's candidate for the House of Commons but he knows this is impossible once he realizes he's in love with Nan and how unhappily married she is. Too honorable to act on or even reveal his feelings, neither can he bear the thought of spending time with her and the Duke as he would have to do as the Duke's political protege. So he decides to hire on with his old engineering firm and leave England again, and he only seeks out Nan to convince her to go with him after hearing that she has left the Duke.The resolution of Nan and Guy's love story is only part of the appeal of Mainwaring's brilliant ending. She pulls together the threads placed by Wharton herself, drawing on the characterizations and events laid out in those earlier chapters to craft a delightfully satisfying conclusion. Reinforcing the titular theme as she ties up the loose ends, she puts on display the awe-inspiring talents of the truest buccaneers of them all, the Elmsworth sisters, as they surreptitiously aid the cause of Nan and Guy in pursuit of their own ambitious but believably achievable aims.
The first two-thirds of the novel are interesting and historically relevant — not Wharton at her finest but as with almost anything written by Edith Wharton always a few on-point revelations about status conscious humankind sprinkled among the descriptions of clothes and social events. But then Wharton’s manuscript ends and Mainwaring steps in to complete the novel. It feels insipid, predictable and not quite right — whoever claimed they couldn’t tell the difference between Mainwaring and Wharton are either lying or far from insightful readers. I was cruelly disappointed by the final third of the novel — but I am glad to have had Wharton with me during the first two thirds.
This Wharton novel is about 4 American Heiresses who aren't accepted by New York society because they come from "new money". So their Mothers take them to England and with the help of a marriage broker they all marry into the English Aristocracy. Most of these cash for class marriages weren't based on love but were based on how much money the wife's father was able to provide to the cash strapped English in-laws so they can fix up their grand country houses. Also required by the new ladies of the manor was to produce an heir to keep the ancestors happy. This book chronicles the up's and down's of three unhappy unions and the one that was based on love. It's believed that Wharton based the character of Nan, who became a Duchess, on Consuelo Vanderbilt. Even though the book is unfinished I still love it because I can imagine my own ending. Any fan of Downton would like this novel.
Julian Fellows, creator and writer of Downton Abbey, used "The Buccaneers" as part of his research into the 19th-century phenomenon of American girls from wealthy, new-money families who bought a title by marrying British aristocrats and infusing cash into their families' estates. Fellows reports that there were approximately 350 of these rich, young American women, which gave him the template for Cora Crawley, the Countess Grantham, and wife of Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey.Wharton's book is a fascinating tale of four of these American girls whose newly wealthy families were shunned by New York's families of old-money wealth. Rejected by the snobs whose ancestors, not fathers, made their money, Virginia, Nan, Liz and Mabel do "a season" among London's old families. Two of them snag titled aristocrats, one a wealthy MP and the fourth returns to America to marry a wealthy countryman. Wharton's book is an engaging tale of the "Buccaneer" phenomenon and a fascinating study of the character of Nan, on whose head a tiara sits uncomfortably.
The Buccaneers is Edith Wharton's delightful take on the lives of young American women - young women whose parent's money was 'too new' for the class of society they aspired to ... so they took their money to Europe. They married into Europe's aristocracy - a group that had the social cache they longed for and needed their 'new money'. Unlike the outstanding, but often dreary 'Age of Innocence' this book is lighter fare. While not laugh out loud funny, it will make you smile at the oh so serious antics of those who want nothing more than to be high society. I particularly found the mothers of these young women to be amusing - their entire job to ensure their daughters were considered well-bred and properly married. This is the real life story of Downton Abbey - and just as entertaining.
Though this novel was incomplete at the time of her death, Wharton's work has been finished and very well. I did not look to see which parts Wharton had done, so I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality and consistency in the narration. The story is excellent and is yet another example of Wharton's keen eye for the the layered motives behind social behaviors.
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