The Company She Keeps

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First published in the U.S.A. by Harcourt, Brace 1942 Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1957 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Mary McCarthy, 1942

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Monotype Bembo

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