Jacob’s Room : Annotated Edition

Published 26/05/2020 | Paperback / softback,
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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