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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
Author: Edward Mendelson
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, Wuther...  more »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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ISBN-13: 9780307275226
ISBN-10: 0307275221
Publication Date: 11/6/2007
Pages: 288
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
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