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  • The Group

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    This smash hit and must-read classic about privileged Vassar classmates that shocked America in the sixties 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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

    $44.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Essays Volume Two

    Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 and On the Contrary

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 wrote with "an icily honest eye and a glacial wit" ( The New York Times). Gathered here are two memorable ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cast a Cold Eye

    Stories

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 taken apart, and then reformed, by a deadly outbreak of influenza. The short fiction in this collection, some of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Occasional Prose

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 GirlhoodThis intriguing nonfiction collection by Mary McCarthy is a cornucopia of literary delights that challenges the mind and captivates the senses."On Rereading a Favorite Book" is McCarthy's reaction to returning ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    The American theatre comes alive in Mary McCarthy's provocative anthology of essaysHer literary writings and dramatic criticism have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles gathers together a wide-ranging collection featuring a cast of playwrights, actors, and directors that reads like a "who's who" of American theatre.With chapters ranging ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    With a lack of sentimentality unusual for the genre, Venice Observed explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities of the City of Canals. Mordantly witty and legendarily wry, Mary McCarthy catalogs the impressions of such visitors to the city as Montaigne, Stendhal, Spencer, and Henry James, but paints her own wholly original depictions of the city. Her adoration of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Contrary

    Articles of Belief, 1946-1961

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Strikingly relevant and shrewdly observed, Mary McCarthy's On the Contrary collects articles, talks, reviews, travel notes, a short story, and a personal reminiscence by the legendary writer and contrarian. Included is her review of Hannah Arendt's seminal book, The Human Condition, a bitingly funny take on Simone de Beauvoir's account of her visit to the United States in 1947, a candid essay ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Essays Volume One

    Occasional Prose, The Writing on the Wall, and Ideas and the Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    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 with "an icily honest eye and a glacial wit" ( The New York Times). Gathered here are three collections of her ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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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

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus