Jacob's room - virginia woolf

What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacobs room.

Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolfs third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyces Ulysses and T.

Eliots The Waste Land , follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens.

Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation.

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.

A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacobs Room tells a new story for a new century.

In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacobs 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.