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The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
By Edward Mendelson
Pantheon, 260 pages, $23
Toss the self-help books and turn to the lessons of literature as salvation. This volume of essays, organized by life passages, will appeal to Virginia Woolf fans: Three of her novels–“Mrs. Dalloway,” “To the Lighthouse” and “Between the Acts”–are used to explore the life stages of love, parenthood and the future, respectively.
