Jacob's Room

ISBN: 978-93-6561-145-8
Author: Virginia Woolf
Number of Pages: 150
Size: A5
Genre: Literary Fiction / Modernist Novel
Edition: First Published 2025

Key Features:

• Virginia Woolf's first major modernist novel
• Fragmented narrative and impressionistic style
• Explores identity, loss, and memory through innovative storytelling
• Compact 150-page A5 edition for easy reading
• Published under Aedha Imprints in India

Description:

Jacob's Room is by Virginia Woolf marks a radical departure from traditional narrative form, representing a foundational work in literary modernism. First published in 1922, it offers a fragmented, impressionistic portrayal of Jacob Flanders, a young man whose life is explored not through direct exposition, but through the shifting memories, thoughts, and perceptions of those who surround him.

Woolf's groundbreaking narrative eschews linear storytelling in favor of mood, atmosphere, and psychological nuance. Through fleeting glimpses and shifting perspectives, the novel captures the transient nature of identity and memory. Set in pre-World War I England, it presents a haunting portrait of a disintegrating generation, touching on themes of loss, social expectation, and the silence of war.

This deeply introspective novel is richly layered with Woolf’s poetic language and philosophical insight. It heralds the stream-of-consciousness narrative form she would later perfect in her celebrated works.

Published by Anubhav Publishers and Distributors under Aedha Imprints, this 2025 edition is ideal for literature students, scholars, and anyone seeking to experience the formative evolution of one of the 20th century’s most influential literary voices.

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