Mary McCarthy (author) - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • The Company She Keeps (1942), Harvest/HBJ, 2003 reprint:ISBN 0-15-602786-0
  • The Oasis (1949), Backinprint.com, 1999 edition:ISBN 1-58348-392-6
  • Cast a Cold Eye (1950), HBJ, 1992 reissue:ISBN 9780156154444
  • The Groves of Academe (1952), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint:ISBN 0-15-602787-9
  • A Charmed Life (1955), Harvest Books, 1992 reprint:ISBN 0-15-616774-3
  • Venice Observed (1956), Harvest/HBJ, 1963 edition:ISBN 0-15-693521-X (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book)
  • The Stones of Florence (1956), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint of 1963 edition:ISBN 0-15-602763-1 (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book)
  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), Harvest/HBJ, 1972 reprint:ISBN 0-15-658650-9 (autobiography)
  • On the Contrary (1961)
  • The Group (1962), Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint:ISBN 0-15-637208-8, adapted as a 1966 movie of the same name.
  • Vietnam (1967)
  • Hanoi (1968)
  • The Writing on the Wall (1970)
  • Birds of America (1971), Harcourt 1992 reprint:ISBN 0-15-612630-3
  • Medina (1972)
  • The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974)
  • Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint:ISBN 0-15-615386-6 (novel explores the psychology of terrorism)
  • Ideas and the Novel (1980)
  • How I Grew (1987), Harvest Books, ISBN 0-15-642185-2 (intellectual autobiography age 13–21)
  • Intellectual Memoirs (1992), published posthumously (edited and with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick)
  • A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (2002), New York Review Books, (compilation of essays and critiques), ISBN 1-59017-010-5

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