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The Buccaneers

By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Flo Gibson
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About this listen

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.

Public Domain (P)2008 Audio Book Contractors, LLC Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Money

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No, because I have found the reading very poor. Extremely disappointing as you will see from my library, I am an Edith Wharton fan

What did you like best about this story?

So far I am not liking anything best.

How could the performance have been better?

A better reader

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Probably because it is an Edith Wharton

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An unfinished work and in need of a deal of revisions of style and of ruthless editing.

Disappointing

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Ruined a wonderful author’s book
One of the wort read far too fast and unsuitable for the novel each character indistinguishable

Appalling narration

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Really good book but the naration is poor and very irritating. The reader speaks so quickly that it's quite difficult to follow the story - disappointing.

good book, awful naration

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