Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room is the novel in which Virginia Woolf abandoned the old machinery of fiction for good. Jacob Flanders is never once described; he is assembled instead from what others happen to notice — his mother's letters, a room in Cambridge, a stranger on a bus, sheep's jaws on a beach, an empty pair of shoes. The Great War, too, arrives without ever being named. Hand-printed by Woolf on the Hogarth Press she ran from her dining room, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 31 full-page color plates.