
Whose up for a buddy read of this? It‘s 100 pages. I suggest we chat July 26, in one month.
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Whose up for a buddy read of this? It‘s 100 pages. I suggest we chat July 26, in one month.
#whartonbuddyread
@AllDebooks @CarolynM @Currey @IMASLOWREADER @jewright @LapReader @Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie
Wharton‘s last, unfinished novel explores the experience of wealthy American girls, shunned by New York society, who go on to marry into the British aristocracy. While the toffs like the money and the girls like the feeling that they have beaten NY, the culture clash prohibits marital harmony. Wharton‘s writing is as glittering as ever & it is a great shame that we will never know how she would have developed her intended story. #WhartonBuddyRead
Wharton never finished this, and she never reached the really dramatic parts she sketched out in her synopsis. The title refers to rich American young girls who in the 1870's raided the English nobility for marriages like pirates. We follow 5 girls rejected by NY society. One, Nan, has a special governess who advises they go to England. They all do and we get to a darker part of the story before the manuscript stops.
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The Buccaneers - the unwritten conclusion
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Wharton never finished this. Her manuscript ends with Book 3. She had written a synopsis and others have filled in completions.
I found my copy‘s completion unreadable. I read 8 pages and quit.
I think the synopsis changes and reveals themes. The book is no longer about a playful clash of cultures, but about love struggles, sacrifice and loneliness. Themes Wharton lived. Thoughts?
The Buccaneers - Book 3
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Ok, 1st of all, I didn‘t see that marriage happening. What a devastating way to open book 3.
2nd - that‘s the end of Wharton‘s draft.
3rd - but she also left a synopsis. So we know what is going to happen. But that‘s looking ahead.
4th - so, Book 3 - thoughts on Longlands, Ushant, Dowager, Thwarte, Conchita, Testvalley, Lizzy Robinson?
5th - completion plan next week. See comments.
The ruins of Tintagel castle in Cornwall
The Buccaneers - Book 2
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Scene switch: We‘re in England, and new American wealth collides with English heirs. Nan has romantic interludes. Lady Churt confronts Seadown and Virginia. Then, Tintagle confronts Testvalley. What would you have liked Testvalley to say?
Where are you all with this, within your Wharton mindset?
Getting started. #whartonbuddyread
Reminder - two weeks till next #whartonbuddyread 😍
Catch up review from mid year 5/5
I‘m reviewing these 2 together because they are 2 parts of a whole. The tagged book follows the early career of a young man from a small town who achieves literary success but struggles in society. In the sequel (tagged in comments) he struggles to replicate that success while travelling through Europe with his mistress. In both books he is oblivious to making a lot of people unhappy.
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