Bibliograph

Jacob's room, Virginia Woolf ; with introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen

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Jacob's room, Virginia Woolf ; with introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Jacob's room

Responsibility statement

Virginia Woolf ; with introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen

Series statement

Vintage classics Woolf series

Summary

An experimental novel about a young man who yearns for something greater than his everyday life holds. New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared

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