'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.
| ISBN: | 9780192857392 |
| Publication date: | 9th June 2022 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Classic fiction: general and literary |
'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders?
Jacob's Room features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary
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Jacob's Room was written by Virginia Woolf and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Jacob's Room has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford World's Classics series
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. In Stock.