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Jacob's Room

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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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Authors:
Woolf, Virginia
Year Published:
2022
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
Editors:
Seshagiri, Urmila
Illustrations Note:
3 black and white Maps
ISBN:
9780192857392
Number of Pages:
240
Publication Date:
09/06/2022
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Place of Publication:
Oxford
Language:
English
SKU:
9780192857392

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