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Jacob´s Room
Virginia Woolf
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Description for Jacob´s Room
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY LAWRENCE NORFOLK AND ELISABETH BRONFEN
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478263
SKU
V9780099478263
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About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, ... Read more
Reviews for Jacob´s Room
Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think, but who is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature. It’s a remarkable achievement.
New Statesman
Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be ... Read more
New Statesman
Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be ... Read more