Jacob’s Room

by Virginia Woolf

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Jacob Flanders is assembled indirectly through the memories, conversations and impressions of the people around him. His life moves from a Cornish childhood through Cambridge, London society and travel in Greece before ending in the absence created by the First World War. The fragmented form refuses a complete heroic portrait and makes loss itself the novel’s centre. Through Jacob’s education, friendships and relationships, Woolf evokes the privileges and assumptions of Edwardian young men while showing how the war destroyed lives that families and friends could never fully understand.