Edith 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.
