A review by brampton
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

2.0

Marion Mainwaring did a good job editing and re-ordering the first three quarters of this book (and bowdlerizing it apparently) and I question if it was necessary to write the rest. I had read somewhere that Nan was going to end up in Greece with her lover, and when I got to the end of Wharton's original text I felt it was sufficiently wrapped up with a nice sort of ambiguity that suggested what was going to happen without spelling it out. It was as if Wharton wrote a closing passage because she knew she wouldn't get to finish the book. I'm only sorry I did.
I found eventually I had to keep a list of characters as they all went by so many names and titles and owned various city houses and country estates it was hard to keep track of who was who and where.