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Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922.The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those... Read Full Overview

'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'

An important text in early Modernism, Jacob's Room is unique and experimental in style. Ostensibly, it follows the life of Jacob Flanders, evoked purely through other people's perceptions of him. Jacob remains absent throughout. He is both representative and victim of the social... Read Full Overview

A generous "Contexts" section provides extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also included are the short stories "The Mark on the Wall," "Kew Gardens," and "An... Read Full Overview

'Her first full work of the charged Modernism that would come to define her' Paris Review

Set in pre-war England, Jacob's Room traces the development of Jacob Flanders from childhood to adulthood. In this pathbreaking experimental novel, Jacob's character and the events of his life are revealed primarily through the letters, conversations, and thoughts of the people... Read Full Overview

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through... Read Full Overview

Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I.

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited... Read Full Overview

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922.The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus,... Read Full Overview

The story of a man's life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. "Jacob's Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens....The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete... Read Full Overview

The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards... Read Full Overview

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I.

He left everything just as it was.... Did he think he would come back?

"No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room"-The New York Times

"I have seldom read a cleverer book...it is exquisitely written, but the characters do not vitally survive in... Read Full Overview

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related... Read Full Overview

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf