Jacob’s Room (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007925522 ISBN 13: 9780007925520

Publisher: William Collins, 2013

Synopsis

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JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob’s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob’s voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism’s first great novels.

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Jacob's Room

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007925522
• ISBN 13: 9780007925520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224