Jacob's Room Paperback / softback
by Virginia Woolf
Edited by Urmila Seshagiri
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'Who is Jacob Flanders?
Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S.
Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens.
Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation.
But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe.
A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century. In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful achievement—more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf's first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.
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- Pages:240 pages, 3 black and white Maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/2022
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- ISBN:9780192857392
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 3 black and white Maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192857392
