Name: Jacob's Room
SKU: 56792023
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789358042504

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Pharos Books Private Limited

Language

English

Pages

174

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9789358042504

Synopsis "Jacob's Room"

In Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf takes readers on a journey through the life of Jacob Flanders, a young man coming of age in early 20th-century England. Through Woolf's vivid and evocative prose, we see Jacob navigate the complexities of love, friendship, and societal expectations as he grows from a boy into a man. Woolf's experimental narrative style and use of stream of consciousness add a layer of depth to the story, allowing readers to fully immerse themselves in Jacob's thoughts and experiences. As we follow Jacob through his life, we also witness the changing world around him, from the political upheaval of World War I to the shifting social norms of the time. Through it all, Woolf's writing captures the essence of a generation coming of age in a rapidly changing world.

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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