Name: Jacob's Room
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789355840646

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

138

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9789355840646

Synopsis "Jacob's Room"

Jacob's Room is a linear novel concerning the life of Jacob Flanders, a fictional character whose life spans from approximately 1988 to 1914. It is written in the past tense. The novel begins during Jacob's early childhood. Jacob's mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Flanders, takes her three sons to Cornwall, England in the wake of her husband's death. The novel moves ahead to Jacob's time in university. Jacob attends the University of Cambridge, thus residing outside Scarborough for the first time in his life. The novel ends with a scene of Betty Flanders and Richard Bionomy distraughtly clearing out Jacob's London apartment in the wake of Jacob's death.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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