A review by kelly_shea
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

5.0

5 stars for the part done by Wharton! I loved finally seeing a novel of hers with female friends who actually supported each other. Wharton definitely seemed to be taking things in a new direction in her later years, and I am so sad that we’ll never know how she would have ended this.

I read a version without Mainwaring’s part. From what I’ve heard, she didn’t conclude it in a way that Wharton would have ended a novel. I also found her statements about Wharton as a whole distasteful. She only felt fit to attempt this because she thought Wharton was “not as great” as writers like Eliot or Austen? Not a great look to insult Wharton while (presumably?) earning money off of “completing” her work…