Jacob's Room
With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of...
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With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of random impressions through the minds of its characters, Jacob's Room remains an important work in the development of the novel form-and a shining example of Woolf's genius and literary daring.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451526656 (0451526651)
Publish date: January 1st 1998
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Adult,
Modern Classics,
English Literature
Everyone wants to know who Jacob is, and everyone has an opinion on him.There’s little plot in Jacob’s Room, it's more of a character study, The story is like following Jacob around a series of impressions of this or that observer (his mother, his lovers and his friends), the place being this or th...
I loved how I could easily imagine being there with the boys on that island. In fact, many of the characters even reminded me of former classmates on the playground or bus stop ;) Thank God for that bell. Again, I read this in high school and I was challenged by the conflict to grapple with the pr...
Listened to an audio of this book on my mini tablet while at work. I am still unable to get into Woolf's books. I continue to read them because most of them are on the 1001 list. If it wasn't for that I would not read any more of them.
After I gave up trying to cling to a plot or any deep character development, I enjoyably snuggled into Woolf's prose, meandering from description to description until the close of the book. The dialogue in the book never quite did it for me, and I found myself annoyed by it, wanting to get back to t...
So who is Jacob? Everyone wants to know. Everyone has an opinion. A few things are mostly agreed upon: he is a smart and handsome young man, and no doubt up to something, and prone to boating naked, and this in proper, pre-World War I England.The story is like following Jacob around a rambling old h...
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