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  • The Group

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 personalities. A week after graduation in 1933, they all gather for the wedding of Kay Strong, one of their own, before ... Read more

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  • The Life of the Mind

    The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." — NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this ... Read more

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  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion—a mortal sin—Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory" During the course of writing this, I've often wished that I were writing fiction."Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, ... Read more

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  • Vietnam

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Hailed as "the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America's role in Vietnam" by the New York Times, this is Mary McCarthy's riveting account of her journeys to Saigon and HanoiIn 1967, the editor of the New York Review of Books sent Mary McCarthy to Vietnam. In this daring and incisive account , McCarthy brings her critical thinking and novelist's eye to one of the ... Read more

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  • Intellectual Memoirs

    New York, 1936–1938

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    In this no-holds-barred memoir with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick, the bestselling author of The Group recalls her early life in New York, revealing the genesis of and genius behind her groundbreaking fictionMary McCarthy is a married twenty-four-year-old Communist and critic when this memoir begins. She's disciplined, dedicated, and sexually experimental: At one point she realizes that in ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume One

    The Group, The Company She Keeps, and Birds of America

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 outstanding works are collected in one volume.The Group: This "witty . . . brilliant" blockbuster bestseller ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Florence

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Venice Observed and The Group.Mary McCarthy's classic celebrates the Italian city often looked upon as the provincial sister to the better-dressed, more "feminine" Venice.To McCarthy, Florence, or Firenze, is a place of ageless enchantment, from the Duomo to the fortressed ... Read more

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  • Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs

    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, and Intellectual Memoirs

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Three candid, affecting memoirs by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group, including a National Book Award finalist.In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she ... Read more

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  • Mary McCarthy's Italy

    The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Captivating portraits of two of the world's most beguiling cities from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group.Mary McCarthy blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create unique living portraits of two of Italy's most enchanting cities in these enthralling books now available in one volume.The Stones of Florence: The book Library Journal called "Mary McCarthy's classic" ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Company She Keeps

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 in the years leading up to the Second World War. With careless abandon, she destroys her marriage and numerous ... Read more

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  • A Charmed Life

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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. So she returns to her beloved New England artists' colony with her second husband—and discovers that little has ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Florence

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of the birthplace of the Renaissance and the legendary home of the Medici, Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and other giants of the age. Her keen observations of this famously alluring city speak to Florence's persistent character and magnetism-and the attraction it exerted over the first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus