Jacobs Room

Jacob's Room is an experimental novel about a young man who yearns for something greater than his everyday life holds. With introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on avoyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate isforever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.