Mary McCarthy (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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First known as a book reviewer, drama critic, and essayist, Mary McCarthy also wrote short stories, collected in The Company She Keeps (1942), Cast a Cold Eye (1950), and The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories (1981). Her drama criticism is collected in Sights and Spectacles, 1937-1956 (1956) and in Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962 (1963). Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959) are books of travel and art history. The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays (1970)...

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