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    The Group

    Mary McCarthy

    The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and  party in 1930s Manhattan. The Group can be seen as the…

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    Venice Observed

    Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities of the City of Canals. Mordantly witty and legendarily wry, Venice Observed is a classic travel narrative for the…

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    The Stones of Florence

    Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy’s essays on Florence, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, offer an insightful, mesmerizing look into Florence’s genealogy, archaeology, art, culture, and political life.

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    The Stones of Florence

    Mary McCarthy

    A journey through the glorious Italian city’s scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group.

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    The Group

    Mary McCarthy

    A beautiful hardback edition to mark the 60th anniversary of the bestselling, influential novel about women's lives and female friendships.

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    Stella Maris

    Cormac McCarthy

    One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, a masterpiece of a duet - a decade in the making.

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    Stella Maris

    Cormac McCarthy

    The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.

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    The Group

    Mary McCarthy

    A stylish new edition of the best-selling timeless novel about eight college friends navigating their adult life in 1930s Manhattan.

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    The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.

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    Conversations with Mary McCarthy

    Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

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    Mary Mccarthy: The Complete Fiction

    Mary McCarthy

    For the first time in a deluxe collector’s edition, all seven novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation

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    Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy

    Frances Kiernan

    A revealing portrait of the dramatic life of writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy.

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    Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles: 1937-1962

    Mary McCarthy

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    Groves of Academe

    Mary Mccarthy,McCarthy

    This is a novel of scandal and subterfuge in a small, progressive Eastern college, staffed by liberal intellectuals and headed by a vigorous opponent of the loyalty oath. It follows…

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    Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy

    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, comprising contributions from the fields of politics, sociology, history and gender studies, this handbook creates a comprehensive and innovative overview of the field, investigating the widening…

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    Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy

    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, comprising contributions from the fields of politics, sociology, history and gender studies, this handbook creates a comprehensive and innovative overview of the field, investigating the widening…

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    Venice Observed

    Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities of the City of Canals. Mordantly witty and legendarily wry, Venice Observed is a classic travel narrative for the…

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    Birds of America

    Mary McCarthy

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    Writing on the Wall & Other Lit Essays

    Mary McCarthy

    Literary criticism that ranges from Shakespeare to Salinger.

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    A Pilgrimage of Hope

    Mary McCarthy

    The news felt like a punch in the gut. I cried in disbelief as the doctor told me what they found. In the blink of an eye, my world turned…

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    Venice Observed

    Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities of the City of Canals. Mordantly witty and legendarily wry, Venice Observed is a classic travel narrative for the…

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    The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy’s first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.

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    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

    Mary McCarthy

    Blending memories and family myths, the author takes the reader back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned in a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the…

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    How I Grew

    Mary McCarthy

    When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary started a deprived childhood…

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    A Closer Look

    Mary McCarthy

    Open your eyes. Open your mind. Open your imagination. Look! What do you see Mary McCarthy’s beautiful handmade-paper collages will transport young children on a journey of discovery.

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    The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy’s first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.

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    Birds of America

    Mary McCarthy

    A poignant and evocative novel of self-discovery that follows a young man in America and abroad, on a journey into adulthood during the turbulent 1960sIt is 1964, and Peter Levi…

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    How I Grew

    Mary McCarthy

    When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary started a deprived childhood…

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    On the Contrary: Articles of Belief, 1946-1961

    Mary McCarthy

    Articles, talks, reviews, travel notes, a short story, and a personal reminiscence by the legendary writer and contrarian Mary McCarthy.

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    The Group

    Mary McCarthy

    Award-winning author Mary McCarthy’s The Group is a gem of American social history as well as very good fiction (The Nation).

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    On the Contrary

    Mary McCarthy

    A master of the art of the essay, Mary McCarthy's 'On the Contrary' offers a thoughtful and incisive exploration of the issues and ideas that defined mid-century America. Whether reflecting…

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    How I Grew

    Mary McCarthy

    When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary started a deprived childhood…

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    Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938

    Mary McCarthy

    In these memoirs, written before her death in 1989, the acclaimed author of The Group chronicles the breakup of her first marriage, her move to Greenwich Village, and the checkered…

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    Passing it on: Music and the Narrative of Irish Culture

    Marie McCarthy

    An imaginative study aiming to document and interpret the role of education in shaping the quality of musical and cultural life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland.

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    Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work

    Eve Stwertka,Margo Viscusi

    The only full-length book on Mary McCarthy that is not a biography, this volume contains discussions of McCarthy as a member of the New York intelligentsia, her search for a…

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    Mary Mccarthy: Novels 1963-1979: The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries

    Mary McCarthy

    In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group

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    Mary McCarthy - American Writers 72: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

    Irvin Stock

    Mary McCarthy - American Writers 72 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…

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    Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

    Alan Ackerman

    A title that offers a many-faceted examination of Lillian Hellman’s infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language…

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    The Collectors: Stories

    M. T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay

    Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award A National Bestseller

    From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason…

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    Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life

    Mary McCarthy

    In the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation

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    On the Iliad

    Rachel Bespaloff

    Contents include: The Style of the Mythical Age: An Introduction by Hermann Broch ON THE ILIAD Hector Thetis and Achilles Helen The Comedy of the Gods Troy and Moscow Priam…

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    Locos

    Felipe Alfau

    The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their…

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    Oasis: A Novel

    Mary McCarthy,Vivian Gornick

    Story of a group of Americans who seek to escape the perils of present-day life by going to the New England mountains.

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    On the Iliad

    Rachel Bespaloff

    Contents include: The Style of the Mythical Age: An Introduction by Hermann Broch ON THE ILIAD Hector Thetis and Achilles Helen The Comedy of the Gods Troy and Moscow Priam…

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    The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy’s first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.

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    Ḏamurruŋ‘puy Malk Saltwater Skin

    Mary E McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy is a storyteller, artist, teacher, healer, creative and intuitive who gently plaits her accounts in this exquisite memoir of living and working in remote Arnhem Land. From a…

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    Some Motives in Pagan Education Compared with the Christian Ideal: A Study in the Philosophy of Education

    Mary Katharine McCarthy

    This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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    Adult Halloween Parties: Spooktacular Decorations, Food, Drinks, Costumes & Beyond

    Mary T McCarthy

    Halloween’s not just for kids. Groan-ups of all ages love to get their spook on and scare up some fun. Whether you’re hosting the boo bash or attending a spooktacular…

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