Novels & stories 1942-1963

Author(s)

• McCarthy, Mary
• Mallon, Thomas

Bibliographic Information

Novels & stories 1942-1963

Mary McCarthy ; Thomas Mallon, editor

（The library of America, 290）

Literary Classics of the United States, c2017

Other Title

Novels & stories 1942-1963 : The company she keeps, The oasis, The groves of academe, A charmed life, stories

Novels and stories : 1942-1963

Note

Chronology: p. 937-949

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• The company she keeps
• The oasis
• The groves of academe
• A charmed life
• The weeds
• The friend of the family
• The cicerone
• The old men
• The company is not responsible
• The unspoiled reaction
• The Appalachian revolution
• The hounds of summer

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature---mutual plagiarism, - she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe collector's edition. The Oasis (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopian community, and The Groves of Academe (1952), a pioneering campus novel depicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished her reputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with A Charmed Life (1955), a searing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank and avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations of readers and writers. Also included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast a Cold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time.

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Details

• NCID: BB23326642
• ISBN:
  • 9781598535167
• LCCN: 2016946087
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 994 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 813.54
  • NDC10 : 933.7
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00080739