{"product_id":"jacobs-room-9780192857392","title":"Jacob's Room","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e and T.S. Eliot's \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, \u003cem\u003eJacob's Room\u003c\/em\u003e tells a new story for a new century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful achievement--more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf 's first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrmila Seshagiri is Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eRace and the Modernist Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Cornell) and is the editor of an upcoming first scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf's memoir \u003cem\u003eSketch of the Past\u003c\/em\u003e (Cornell) as well as an edition of Woolf's \u003cem\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e (WW Norton \u0026amp; Co) She is also the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and has published extensively on modernism, feminism, and contemporary literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635019616530,"sku":"9780192857392","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e4e2a51-46a5-4fd0-a8fe-3b341ffe94f6.jpg?v=1732829014","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jacobs-room-9780192857392","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}