Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room has it all: life, death, and the evanescence of time. Love, fear, solitude, and death again--the subjects float by like parasols in autumnal twilight. Her characters are strikingly real. Nothing much happens; yet in the tragic futility, the absurdity, the divine pathos, the delicate beauty of contemplation, all of life happens.

Jacob's Room is one of Virginia Woolf's rare and genuine masterpieces; an enchanting work of artistry deserving of the label in a thousand different ways...