ISBN |
9781784877958 (paperback) |
Name |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 author. |
Title |
Jacob's room / Virginia Woolf ; with introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen. |
Published |
London : Vintage, 2022. |
©1922 |
Description |
xxii, 182 pages ; 18 cm. |
Notes |
"The text of this edition of Jacob's room is based on that of the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf on 27th October 1922" -- Page opposite colophon. |
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. |
Subjects |
Men -- Fiction |
Travel -- Fiction |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Genre |
Experimental fiction |
Other Names |
Bronfen, Elisabeth writer of introduction. |
Norfolk, Lawrence, 1963- writer of introduction. |
Series |
Vintage classics Woolf series |
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