By: Virginia Woolf, Lawrence Norfolk (Introduction by), Elisabeth Bronfen (Introduction by)

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Jacob's Room is Virgina Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from childhood, life at Cambridge University to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob consistently yearns for something greater and, in an attempt to resuscitate his love of the classics, he embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the begins and his fate is forever altered. In 1922 E. M. Forster wrote of Jacob's Room, 'amazing-a new type of fiction has swum into view'. Impressionistic in style, experimental in approach, this narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.

"Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition" New York Times

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frontispiece
JACOB'S ROOMNOTES
Appendices
Notes
Emendations
Textual Variants
Chronology
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ISBN: 9780099478263
ISBN-10: 0099478269
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 208
Published: 2nd December 2004
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9  x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.161