Jacob's Room

Annotated Edition

Virginia Woolf

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Alma Edizioni
01 December 2024

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

From his childhood

on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge

to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean,

Jacob Flanders’s story is told by the women in his life, whether through his

mother’s correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and

remembrances of those who love him.

An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob’s

Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments,

and one of Virginia Woolf ’s most poignant stories.

“Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think… is never shown. And yet

that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the

most living presences in world literature.” – MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

By: Virginia Woolf
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781847498366
ISBN 10: 1847498361
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing established her as one of Modernism’s leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Mrs Dalloway.

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