Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character--an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War--that is pervaded throughout by a sense that "nobody sees any one as he is". Jacob's Room marks a radical departure from the conventions of realist fiction by seeking to evoke the experiential texture of human cognition and urban modernity in an entirely new way. Endlessly surprising and invent...