The Buccaneers (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Rating:
Summary: 5 stars to wharton and mainwaring both!
Review: The five stars apply to the book as a whole, and for Mainwaring's superb job of finishing the story that Wharton didn't live to do. I have read a lot of Edith Wharton, and this book is my favorite so far, but what I really found amazing was that I couldn't tell where one author left off and the other began. I tried to guess and found out I was mistaken! I won't give away the ending, but it's perfect down to the very last picture the reader is left with. There are lots of characters, so that the book is never boring, but not so many that it is confusing. The problems of women in the 1870s, social, legal, etc. are particularly well highlighted, and the people and the settings are entirely believable. This book made me go out and buy another Wharton novel.

Rating:
Summary: The Buccaneers
Review: This book was just something i grabbed of the shelf as i ran out of the library before going on holiday, i never thought for one moment what this book was but then as i began to read it i discovered what a fabulous and entertaining book it was. It took me a while to get in to it but as the story moved to England i enjoyed it more and could not put it down. I found it interesting to compare the attitudes of people in America and England and now i have just started to read another Wharton novel.