The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
In the 1870s, a group of wealthy American heiresses, snubbed by Old New York, cross the Atlantic to secure titled husbands in England, only to find the aristocratic world as constricting as it is glittering. The most spirited among them enters a grand but loveless marriage and falls in love with another man, forcing a reckoning between status and self-determination. Through their intertwined fates, the story explores the costs of social ambition, the confines of marriage, and the pursuit of genuine happiness.
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- Published
- 1938
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 350-500
- Original Language
- English
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