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Publisher: Alma
Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781847498366
Year: 2020
Format: Paperback
Classics, Fiction
Jacob's Room
by
Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room by
Virginia Woolf
Reviews
"Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think, but who is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature."
New Statesman
Summary
From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother's correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him.
An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob's Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments, and one of Virginia Woolf 's most poignant stories.
