Jacob's Room

From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders`s story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother`s correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him. An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob`s Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments, and one of Virginia Woolf `s most poignant stories.