| Jacob's Room: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition Contributor(s): Woolf, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156457423 ISBN-13: 9780156457422 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1950 Annotation: Set in the halcyon days of pre-World War I innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel follows the progress of a young man as he moves from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of Cornwall to the sun-scorched landscape of Greece, his character is revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents, thoughts, and impressions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 77092141 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Series: Harvest/HBJ Book |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.44 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The story of a man's life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. "Jacob's Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens....The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete. A new type of fiction has swum into view" (E. M. Forster). |
Contributor Bio(s): Woolf, Virginia: - VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels. |