This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Jacob’s Room is at once Virginia Woolf’s most cinematic and most poetic novel. Throwing off traditional novelistic conventions, she devised a stylistically radical new book shaped by the memories of a lost brother, a clear-eyed feminist sensibility, and a fierce pacifism. Using a condensed, imagistic method, Woolf tells the story of Jacob Flanders, a young man destined for the trenches of World War I.
Circa l’autore
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, Woolf showed a passion for words at a young age. Her brother, Thoby, introduced her to the circle of artists and intellectuals who would become known as the Bloomsbury Group. It was his death in 1906 that shaped the story of Jacob’s Room. Woolfe had her first mental breakdown when she was only thirteen years old, and went on to have several more severe breakdowns in her twenties and thirties before committing suicide in 1941.
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