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Jacob's Room is Virginia 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 the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience. The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest...Read more
  • ISBN10 3732664619
  • ISBN13 9783732664610
  • Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 26 October 1922)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Outlook Verlag
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 154
  • Language English