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 - Paperback

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

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

by Edward Mendelson
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780307275226
Author Edward Mendelson
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreEducation and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

By Edward Mendelson

About Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography (2017); Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (2015); and The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.

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