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Jacob's Room

By Virginia Woolf
Series: Cletham Classics
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Virginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War—that is pervaded throughout by a sense that "nobody sees any one as he is".... Read More
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Virginia Woolf’s third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War.

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Virginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War—that is pervaded throughout by a sense that "nobody sees any one as he is".

Jacob's Room marks a radical departure from the conventions of realist fiction by seeking to evoke the experiential texture of human cognition and urban modernity in an entirely new way. Endlessly surprising and inventive in its handling of narrative perspective, this is one of the central achievements of modern English literature.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781916809376

Publisher: ERIS

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: ERIS

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 220

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Fiction Classic General Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Series: Cletham Classics Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was one of the boldest and most influential writers of the English Modernist movement.

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