Jacob’s Room in a modernist novel originally published in 1922. It is told in the past tense in a linear fashion spanning from the 1890s to the 1910s. Jacob Flanders, a boy from Scarborough, England attends the University of Cambridge and then moves to London. Jacob struggles with alienation from modern life and attempts to find meaning in classic art and literature. He takes a tour of Continental Europe. After his return to London, World War One breaks out, and Jacob enlists in the British army. He is killed in combat. The novel is told from many points of view, alternating between narration of plot and narration of characters’ contemplation on life and love.
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment....
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Virginia Woolf is known primarily as a novelist rather than as an essayist, although she was a prolific writer of essays. Indeed, one of her advocates has gone so far as to say that her reputation as ...
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Although Virginia Woolf published only eighteen works of short fiction, she was engaged in writing short stories, sketches, and even experimental prose poems throughout her writing career. Recent rese...
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The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can pe...
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Biography EssayThe writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary...
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English writer Virginia Woolf was one of the most innovative and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific author of essays, journals, letters, and long and short fiction, she ...
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