Jacob’s Room
Author: Virginia Woolf
Introduced by Quentin BellIn her third novel, Virginia Woolf discovers her own unique voice as a novelist and the impressionistic style of her great later works. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author and a list of the textual variants that appeared during her lifetime. Jacob’s Room tells the moving story of Jacob Flander….Read More
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