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The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

Mendelson, Edward

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Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0307275221
ISBN13: 9780307275226
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 6 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .

--Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts--portray the essential experiences of life.

Edward Mendelson--a professor of English at Columbia University--illustrates how each novel is a living portrait of the human condition while expressing its author's complex individuality and intentions and emerging from the author's life and times. He explores Frankenstein as a searing representation of child neglect and abandonment and Mrs. Dalloway as a portrait of an ideal but almost impossible adult love, and leads us to a fresh and fascinating new understanding of each of the seven novels, reminding us--in the most captivating way--why they matter.

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