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Jacob's Room : The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition by Virginia Woolf (1950, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156457423

ISBN-139780156457422

eBay Product ID (ePID)84292

Product Key Features

Book TitleJacob's Room : the Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

Number of Pages180 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1950

TopicContemporary Women, Literary, Romance / Collections & Anthologies

GenreFiction

AuthorVirginia Woolf

Book SeriesThe Virginia Woolf Library

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN77-092141

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230301

ReviewsImpressionistic novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental in form, it centers on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to synthesize his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of World War I. The novel is an examination of character development and the meaning of a life by means of a series of brief impressions and conversations, stream of consciousness, internal monologue, and Jacob's letters to his mother. In zealous pursuit of classicism, Jacob studies the ancients at Cambridge and travels to Greece. He either idealizes or ignores the women who admire him. At the end of the novel all that remains of Jacob's life are scattered objects in an abandoned room., Woolf's 1922 experimental novel here joins Dover's "Thrift" line of bargain classics. This is still a popular item in lit classes, so have a few extra copies on hand; this is the cheapest way to fill the demand.

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisThe story of a man's life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. "Jacob's Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens....The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete. A new type of fiction has swum into view" (E. M. Forster).