num_pages: 180
description: The story of a man’s life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. “Jacob’s Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens....The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete. A new type of fiction has swum into view” (E. M. Forster).
language: English
title: Jacob's Room
titlecomplete: Jacob's Room
characters: Clara Durrant, Jacob Flanders
genres: Classics, British Literature, English Literature, Modern Classics, Female Authors, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 11157
publisher: Mariner Books Classics