Buy this book on-line McCarthy, Mary : Ideas And The NovelHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York City, NY, 1980 ISBN 0151436827
First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 121 pages. Book-length essay on subject. One of the most important books on the novel ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mary McCarthy's "Ideas and The Novel". Succinct, scrupulous, and brilliantly argued critiques of the role, evolution, and fate of ideas in the novel. McCarthy re-examines the works of her literary idols, the great 19th-century novelists (mainly, Balzac and Tolstoy) and juxtaposes them with the works of ascendant and near-canonical 20th-century American writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. There is no contemporary critic actively writing, aware of the fact or not, who has not been influenced by the "Mary McCarthy critical essay", an acerbic, penetrating, and intelligent piece that sees through rubbish with a laser beam ("cast a cold eye", as one of her novels put it) yet remains hopeful about finding the elusive "Real Thing" (her fundamental, central criterion for great literature). An absolute "must-have" title for Mary McCarthy collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich indicated its First Editions as "First Edition/BCDE" during the period 1973 to 1983. HBJ dropped "First Edition" and the appropriate letter or letters with subsequent printings. As such, copies available online are subsequent printings. A rare copy thus. One of the most important and influential American writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARY MCCARTHY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151436827. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of McCarthy, Mary : Ideas And The Novel. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, libri rari, out-of-print books, fine bindings and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |