Jacob's Room

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. JACOBS ROOM, Virginia Woolfs third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacobs childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacobs voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernisms first great novels.