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

By Edward Mendelson
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By 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 Col...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEnglish LiteratureLiterary Criticism - General & MiscellaneousEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - 19th Century - Literary CriticismEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - 20th Century - Literary Criticism