Jacob’s Room

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”What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages — oh, here is Jacob”s room.”Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf”s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce”s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot”s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob”s Room tells a new story for a new century.In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob”s Room ”a most wonderful achievement—more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.” One hundred years after its publication, Woolf”s first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.