Mary Mccarthy: 51 books
The Writing on the Wall
And Other Literary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From Madame Bovary to Macbeth, this collection by Mary McCarthy offers surprising revelations about some of the world’s most beloved works
Shakespeare, Nabokov, Orwell, and Burroughs are just a few of the literary immortals featured in this engaging and thought-provoking volume.
In...
The Collected Essays Volume Two
Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 and On the Contrary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Candid, sharp, and entertaining essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably...
by Mary McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
**Reading and romance, gardening tips, a farewell to a friend, even an opera retold make up this stellar collection from the bestselling author of The Group and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
This intriguing nonfiction collection by Mary McCarthy is a cornucopia of literary delights that...
The Oasis
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group
Long out of print, Mary McCarthy's second novel is a bitingly funny satire set in the early years of the Cold War about a group of writers, editors, and intellectuals who retreat to rural New...
The Group
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan).
At Vassar, they were known as “the group”—eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant...
The Groves of Academe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job—and enact righteous revenge—in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years
Henry Mulcahy’s future is in question. An instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, an institute of...
Cast a Cold Eye
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Seven “remarkable” stories from the bestselling author of The Group (The New York Times).
Two American tourists find themselves seriously befuddled by their unorthodox Italian guide.
A hospitalized graduate student turns the sounds of pain and despair into music. A family is tragically...
Birds of America
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
An “endlessly fascinating novel” of an American student finding his way in 1960s Paris from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group (San Francisco Chronicle).
It is 1964, and Peter Levi, a young student and bird watcher, has come to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. Shy and...
The Company She Keeps
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The celebrated author of The Group offers a “clever, witty, polished” portrait of the 1940s NYC literary bohemia she knew so well in this debut novel (The New York Times).
Margaret Sargent is young and fearless, a deep thinker inspired by the bohemian energy that abounds in New York City...
Entre amigas
Correspondencia entre Hannah Arendt y Mary McCarthy 1949-1975
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Cuando se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de Hannah Arendt, reeditamos un documento fundamental para entender no solo la obra y la vida de la gran pensadora alemana sino también la biografía moral, política e intelectual de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
La correspondencia que la autora...
Cannibals and Missionaries
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A riveting and unconventional thriller about a motley group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant hijackers
En route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to...
The Collected Essays Volume One
Occasional Prose, The Writing on the Wall, and Ideas and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Spirited and insightful essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably wrote...
The Collected Novels Volume One
The Group, The Company She Keeps, and Birds of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Three brilliant novels from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Navigating friendship, sex, careers, and the challenges of adulthood, the characters of Mary McCarthy’s novels remain instantly relatable, whether they’re living in 1930s New York City or 1960s Paris. Here, three of her most...
A Charmed Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A writer’s life is upended by her destructive ex-husband in this intensely personal novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group.
Former actress and budding playwright Martha Sinnott longs to recapture the “charmed life” she abandoned when she divorced her first husband....