Mary McCarthy

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The Company She Keeps copyright © 1942 by Mary McCarthy, renewed
1970 by Mary McCarthy. The Groves of Academe copyright © 1952 by
Mary McCarthy, renewed 1980 by Mary McCarthy. A Charmed Life
copyright © 1955 by Mary McCarthy, renewed 1983 by Mary McCarthy.
“The Weeds,” “The Friend of the Family,” “The Cicerone,” “The Old
Men,” from Cast a Cold Eye copyright © 1950 by Mary McCarthy,
renewed 1977 by Mary McCarthy. Published by arrangement with
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
The Oasis copyright © 2013 by The Mary McCarthy Literary Trust.
Published by arrangement with Melville House Publishing, LLC.
“The Company Is Not Responsible,” The New Yorker, April 22, 1944,
copyright © 1944 by Mary McCarthy. “The Unspoiled Reaction,” Atlantic
Monthly, March 1946, copyright © 1946 by Mary McCarthy. “The
Appalachian Revolution,” The New Yorker, September 11, 1954, copyright
© 1954 by Mary McCarthy. “The Hounds of Summer,” The New Yorker,
September 14, 1963, copyright © 1963 by Mary McCarthy.
Published by arrangement with The Mary McCarthy Literary Trust.

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