Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (English) Paperback Book

Publisher Description

'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; youngmen 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 everyelement 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 achievementDLmore 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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Virginia WoolfMapsJacob's RoomExplanatory Notes

Review

In a brilliant and stimulating new introduction, Urmila Seshagiri ... proves that the daring experimentalism of the novel is also an "essential accomplishment", and uncovers the wealth of the novel and some of its potentialities that still beg to be explored further. * Christine Reynier, Archiv *

Long Description

'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 Warthunders 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.

Feature

A new edition of Virginia Woolf's third novel - her first full-length experimental work - edited with an Introduction and Notes by Urmila Seshagiri2022 marks the centenary of Jacob's Room, first published on 26 October, 1922This edition reproduces Woolf's original 1922 Hogarth Press textAn adept Introduction which brings Jacob's Room into current conversations about the modernist movement and establishes its significance for Woolf's development as an authorDetailed maps allow the reader to follow Jacob's travels throughout the novel

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