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Jacob's Room

First published: 1922
Pages: 202

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Chapter 01
13:33
Chapter 02
26:12
Chapter 03
31:01
Chapter 04
38:36
Chapter 05
21:53
Chapter 06
20:59
Chapter 07
12:40
Chapter 08
21:29
Chapter 09
34:34
Chapter 10
23:22
Chapter 11
21:44
Chapter 12, Part 1
21:32
Chapter 12, Part 2
26:35
Chapter 12, Part 3
18:27
Chapter 13
29:20
Chapter 14
2:48

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Published in 1922, this was the novel where Virginia Woolf first broke fully with conventional storytelling. It follows Jacob Flanders from a Cornish boyhood through Cambridge and into the drawing rooms and studios of pre-war London, yet Jacob himself stays curiously out of reach. Rather than tell us who he is, Woolf builds him from fragments, the impressions of the women and friends around him, overheard talk, empty rooms, small unfinished scenes. The method lets her circle themes of memory, youth, and the waste of a generation, since the shadow of the coming war hangs over every page. Spare and experimental, it points straight toward Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Read it free here in PDF and EPUB.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.