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

"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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	November 2007
Authors:	Edward Mendelson
Dimensions:	202 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	263
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-27522-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-307-27522-1
Barcode:	9780307275226

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