'Listless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain; the flowers in the jar shift. One fibre in the wicker armchair creaks, though no one sits there . . .' Set in the halcyon days of pre-war innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room, follows the progress of a young man as he passes from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of Cornwall to the sunscorched landscape of Greece, his character is revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents, thoughts and impressions. Imparted in a poetic prose style reflecting her experiments with time and reality, Jacob's Room signals Woolf's bold departure from the traditional methods of the English novel.
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'Listless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain; the flowers in the jar shift. One fibre in the wicker armchair creaks, though no one sits there . . .' Set in the halcyon days of pre-war innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room, follows the progress of a young man as he passes from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of Cornwall to the sunscorched landscape of Greece, his character is revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents, thoughts and impressions. Imparted in a poetic prose style reflecting her experiments with time and reality, Jacob's Room signals Woolf's bold departure from the traditional methods of the English novel.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | 1992 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | February 1998 |
Authors | Virginia Woolf |
Introduction by | Sue Roe |
Notes by | Sue Roe |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 240 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-018570-6 |
Barcode | 9780140185706 |
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LSN | 0-14-018570-4 |