![]() 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. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century. ![]() He was such a miserable specimen, the children said, all humps and hollows. She wished they would both leave her and James alone and go on talking. 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. 'Therell be no landing at the Lighthouse tomorrow,' said Charles Tansley, clapping his hands together as he stood at the window with her husband. Women fall in love with Jacob young men desire his company and conversation. 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. Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. ![]() ![]() 'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages - oh, here is Jacob's room.' ![]()
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