Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
"Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf is a novel published in 1922. The story follows Jacob Flanders from childhood through Cambridge and into adulthood in pre-war England, but with a radical twist: Jacob himself remains elusive, known only through the impressions of others. Women in his life—including the reserved Clara Durrant and bohemian artist Florinda—provide glimpses of a man who exists more as absence than presence. This experimental modernist work haunts readers with
its void at the center, presenting a protagonist through memories and sensations rather than concrete reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 |
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| Title | Jacob's Room |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Room |
| Credits | Produced by David Moynihan, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Young men -- Fiction |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Experimental fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5670 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 5, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 801 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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