Jacob's room
By: Virginia Woolf ; edited by Edward L. Bishop.
Contributors: Bishop, Edward.
Series: Shakespeares Head Press edition of Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Published for the Shakespeare Head Press by Blackwell Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780631177227
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "First published in 1922, Jacob's Room was Virginia Woolf's third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war." "This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge-bag trousers and gold beater's skin, to Tonks and Steer and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs. An appendix lists variants between the first English and first American editions of the work."--BOOK JACKET.