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Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192836571
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England as the country moves inex- orably toward the outbreak of World War I. The text reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is the first British edition produced by the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press, with the original layout and paragraph spacing." "A generous Contexts section provides extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Three of Woolf's short stories - "The Mark on the Wall," "Kew Gardens," and "An Unwritten Novel" - are included, allowing readers to trace Woolf's experimentation with the new narrative method she used in Jacob's Room. A fourth short story, "A Woman's College from Outside," was originally intended by Woolf to be Chapter 10 of Jacob's Room and is therefore also reprinted in this volume. Finally, Woolf's classic essay "Modern Novels" provides insight into her literary aesthetic and technique." ""Criticism" is divided into two sections. The first, "Contemporary Reception and Reviews," collects personal responses to Jacob's Room from Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster as well as eleven reviews from contemporary periodicals. The second, "Critical Essays," offers insightful interpretations by Judy Little, Alex Zwerdling, Kate Flint, Kathleen Wall, and Edward L. Bishop. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Jacob's Room (Classic Reprint)

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332737086
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room (Classic Reprint) written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jacob's Room So of course, wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, there was nothing for it but to leave. Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full Stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears Slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered the lighthouse wobbled and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor's little yacht was ben g i e a wax candle in the sun. She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright but the blot had spread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725009486
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Room: Large print by Virginia Woolf Set in pre-war England, Jacob's story starts when he is still a child, and the novel follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. Told mainly through the eyes of women in his life, Jacob's time in London forms a large part of the story, leading to the beginning of World War I. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virgina Woolf
Publisher : Mint Editions (Large Print Lib
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virgina Woolf and published by Mint Editions (Large Print Lib. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room"-The New York Times "I have seldom read a cleverer book...it is exquisitely written, but the characters do not vitally survive in the mind because the author has been obsessed by details of originality and cleverness."-Arnold Bennett Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man's life from childhood until his untimely death in the first World War. On the surface, this could be considered an anti-war novel, yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels traditional forms of narration. The nebulous central character, Jacob Flanders, is strangely is absent from the novel, yet the spaces he traversed are not. In telling the story of Jacob through the perspective of the characters he encountered through his short life, Woolf has created an exceptional contemplation of memory, time, and identity. Subverting the bildungsroman genre, Jacob's Room recounts a short and unsettled life through related incidents, fleeting impression, and delirious stream-of-conscience passages. Through an almost cinematic lens, glimpses of Jacob's early life are recollected through his mother; the idyllic time spent with her children and her uneasy experiences living a widower's life. Through other voices, Jacob arrives at Cambridge, where he is able to socially integrate despite his humble upbringings. After graduating, he leaves for London, where he interacts with a wide range of individuals, both impoverished and from the wealthy class; yet he never fully connects to a meaningful human relationship. Jacob, questioning whether he is a failure, decides to leave London and travels to Greece. Fortunes abroad turn precarious, and he returns to London only to be sent off to the war, where he is killed in action. As E.M. Forester remarked at the publication of Jacob's Room, "A new type of fiction has swum into view." Woolf has created a transformative reading experience conveying the emptiness of one individual's life by leaving out the traditional elements of plot and character, yet she manages to question the ways we fail to see each other as we actually are. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jacob's Room is both modern and readable.

Jacob's Room - The Original Classic Edition

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781743473092
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room - The Original Classic Edition written by Virginia Woolf and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: John kept trotting up and slapping down in her lap grass or dead leaves which he called 'tea, ' and she arranged them methodically but absent-mindedly, laying the flowery heads of the grasses together, thinking how Archer had been awake again last night; the church clock was ten or thirteen minutes fast; she wished she could buy Garfit's acre. ...Flanders could have asked to do such a thing, and the elder boys were getting beyond her, and must be got ready for school, and it was more than most clergymen would have done, coming round after tea, or having them in his own room -as he could fit it in-for the parish was a very large one, and Mr. ...Floyd's letter again, and her breast went up and down when she came to the word 'love, ' but not so fast this time, for she saw Johnny chasing the geese, and knew that it was impossible for her to marry any one-let alone Mr. ...Floyd spoke about the King's Navy (to which Archer was going); and about Rugby (to which Jacob was going); and next day he received a silver salver and went-first to Sheffield, where he met Miss Wimbush, who was on a visit to her uncle, then to Hackney-then to Maresfield House, of which he became the principal, and finally, becoming editor of a well-known series of Ecclesiastical Biographies, he retired to Hampstead with his wife and daughter, and is often to be seen feeding the ducks on Leg of Mutton Pond. ...Jarvis was just the sort of woman to lose her faith upon the moors-to confound her God with the universal that is-but she did not lose her faith, did not leave her husband, never read her poem through, and went on walking the moors, looking at the moon behind the elm trees, and feeling as she sat on the grass high above Scarborough... Yes, yes, when the lark soars; when the sheep, moving a step or two onwards, crop the turf, and at the same time set their bells tinkling; when the breeze first blows, then dies down, leaving the cheek kissed; when the ships on the sea below seem to cross each other and pass on as if drawn by an invisible hand; when there are distant concussions in the air and phantom horsemen galloping, ceasing; when the horizon swims blue, green, emotional-then Mrs.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368344390
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986802734
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woolf's third novel published in 1922 centers around the life of Jacob Flanders. In an innovative style, Jacob is presented to the reader entirely through impressions of the other characters including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Jacob's Room (Illustrated)

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room (Illustrated) written by Virginia Woolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922.The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781706671596
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience. The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privilege thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, the other side', the men in clubs and Cabinets'. Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women.

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949509
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

Jacob's Room.: Novel

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795244794
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room.: Novel written by Virginia Woolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms.Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgam of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations.

Jacob's Room Annotated

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room Annotated written by Virginia Woolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob (except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective). Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms.

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts, We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. Also in books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. We use state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave."Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor's little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun. She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread."... nothing for it but to leave," she read."Well, if Jacob doesn't want to play" (the shadow of Archer, her eldest son, fell across the notepaper and looked blue on the sand, and she felt chilly-it was the third of September already), "if Jacob doesn't want to play"-what a horrid blot! It must be getting late."Where IS that tiresome little boy?" she said. "I don't see him. Run and find him. Tell him to come at once." "... but mercifully," she scribbled, ignoring the full stop, "everything seems satisfactorily arranged, packed though we are like herrings in a barrel, and forced to stand the perambulator which the landlady quite naturally won't allow...."

Doctor Jacob (Classic Reprint)

Author : M. Betham Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484080217
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Jacob (Classic Reprint) written by M. Betham Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Doctor JacobFraulein Fink loved her school, but she could not help breathing a sigh of relief as she crossed the square court yard, around which the class-rooms were built; indeed, she even smiled to herself at the pleasant prospect of a leisure evening, a friend or two to tea in the garden, and a nice little display of sweets in their honour. Perhaps no inhabitant of the Free City worked harder than did Fraulein Fink. From eight in the morning till eight at night she was strenuously and anxiously occupied. A Jesuit striving doggedly after the conversion of a heretic may be compared to her but no other workman, and no work woman, however ardent. Her belief was Grammar her first tenets of faith were the Subject and the Predicate, the major sentence and the minor sentence. In the cause of the latter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 2808019165
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Jacob’s Room with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf, which is the author’s third novel and marked a turning point towards more experimental fiction. Unlike in traditional realist novels, we only see the main character in glimpses and fragments, with our view of him filtered through the eyes of the women around him, resulting in a highly original, character-driven work. Virginia Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most significant English-language writers of the 20th century; her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and Orlando, and the essays A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas. Find out everything you need to know about Jacob’s Room in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Jacob's Room

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393926323
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Room written by Virginia Woolf and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.

Meyer Son

Author : Dwight Tilton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259182870
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Meyer Son written by Dwight Tilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meyer Son: A Novel No one ever knew just how early was Jacob Strauss' advent. Once a wag of the younger branch of the service declared his belief that Jacob slept in some unknown corner of the apartments, but he had been crushed by the old man who bitterly resented even the implication of such an indignity to the firm. Jacob came with quiet tread into the private office of Nathan Meyer this morning and with more than his customary keen search of vision. From under his shaggy eyebrows his bright eyes glanced seemingly at every object in the room. They used to say that Jacob took a mental inventory of every separate thing, great or small, in the private office of his beloved chief. He would know if a single book were out of place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.