Things That Matter What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life

Name: Things That Matter What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life
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ISBN: 9780307275226

ISBN-10: 0307275221

ISBN-13: 9780307275226

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edward Mendelson

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"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…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Introduction


Birth: Frankenstein


Childhood: Wuthering Heights


Growth: Jane Eyre


Marriage: Middlemarch


Love: Mrs. Dalloway


Parenthood: To the Lighthouse


The Future: Between the Acts


Afterword to the Anchor Books Edition


Notes on the Novelists


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index