Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s Stages Through Books

(Random House) Through great authors’ examples, Weinstein analyzes the transitions from childhood to adulthood. Readers see the cost of striving, “half-blinded by wild ambition … toward an ill-conceived manhood” in Dickens’ Pip, and “misdirected youthful passion” in Bronte’s famous duo, Catherine and Heathcliff, wrote a critic for Booklist.   Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of comparative literature at Brown University.