4.2
Jacob's Room (AmazonClassics Edition)
Product Description Jacob Flanders is a uniquely ambiguous protagonist: he is defined almost entirely by others’ impressions and is nearly unknowable as a result—but that does not at all detract from the vitality of Virginia Woolf’s story. In her experimental first novel, she tracks Jacob through the seemingly mundane early years of his life—from a boyhood trip to the Cornwall coast to his college years at Cambridge to his time as an adult in London and Greece—before arriving at his shocking, even tragic, entry into war.With its stream-of-consciousness style and its ever-shifting timeline, Woolf’s elegiac tale defied conventions and signified a major turning point in twentieth-century English literature: the start of the post–World War I modernist era.Revised edition: Previously published as Jacob’s Room, this edition of Jacob’s Room (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. About the Author Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the twentieth century’s preeminent English authors. She is best known for her modernist classics Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando, as well as her pioneering essay A Room of One’s Own, which remains one of the most influential and referenced feminist texts of all time.Born Adeline Virginia Stephen into a highly accomplished, progressive blended family, Woolf grew up in Kensington with seven siblings and half siblings. She married essayist Leonard Woolf in 1912. Two early traumas―the sudden death of her mother in 1895 and the loss of a half sister―were among many events that contributed to a lifelong struggle with mental illness that would ultimately lead to her suicide at the age of fifty-nine. A pioneer of groundbreaking modernist fiction and nonfiction that broke from literary convention and addressed radical themes, Woolf presents a remarkable legacy to contemporary writers and readers.
Literature & FictionLiteraryClassicsGenre FictionComing of Age
RELEASED2019
PUBLISHERBrilliance Audio
LANGUAGEEN
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source][1].) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian][2]: > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outside the genre. I learned a lot from reading the ever-subversive Virginia Woolf. > I was 17 when I read [Orlando][3]. It was half-revelation, half-confusion to me at that age, but one thing was clear: that she imagined a society vastly different from our own, an exotic world, and brought it dramatically alive. I'm thinking of the Elizabethan scenes, the winter when the Thames froze over. Reading, I was there, saw the bonfires blazing in the ice, felt the marvellous strangeness of that moment 500 years ago – the authentic thrill of being taken absolutely elsewhere. > How did she do it? By precise, specific descriptive details, not heaped up and not explained: a vivid, telling imagery, highly selected, encouraging the reader's imagination to fill out the picture and see it luminous, complete. > In [Flush][4], Woolf gets inside a dog's mind, that is, a non-human brain, an alien mentality – very science-fictional if you look at it that way. Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail. I imagine Woolf looking down at the dog asleep beside the ratty armchair she wrote in and thinking what are your dreams? and listening . . . sniffing the wind . . . after the rabbit, out on the hills, in the dog's timeless world. > Useful stuff, for those who like to see through eyes other than our own. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf [2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39360W/Orlando [4]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39320W/Flush
4.2
Jacob's Room (AmazonClassics Edition)
Product Description Jacob Flanders is a uniquely ambiguous protagonist: he is defined almost entirely by others’ impressions and is nearly unknowable as a result—but that does not at all detract from the vitality of Virginia Woolf’s story. In her experimental first novel, she tracks Jacob through the seemingly mundane early years of his life—from a boyhood trip to the Cornwall coast to his college years at Cambridge to his time as an adult in London and Greece—before arriving at his shocking, even tragic, entry into war.With its stream-of-consciousness style and its ever-shifting timeline, Woolf’s elegiac tale defied conventions and signified a major turning point in twentieth-century English literature: the start of the post–World War I modernist era.Revised edition: Previously published as Jacob’s Room, this edition of Jacob’s Room (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. About the Author Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the twentieth century’s preeminent English authors. She is best known for her modernist classics Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando, as well as her pioneering essay A Room of One’s Own, which remains one of the most influential and referenced feminist texts of all time.Born Adeline Virginia Stephen into a highly accomplished, progressive blended family, Woolf grew up in Kensington with seven siblings and half siblings. She married essayist Leonard Woolf in 1912. Two early traumas―the sudden death of her mother in 1895 and the loss of a half sister―were among many events that contributed to a lifelong struggle with mental illness that would ultimately lead to her suicide at the age of fifty-nine. A pioneer of groundbreaking modernist fiction and nonfiction that broke from literary convention and addressed radical themes, Woolf presents a remarkable legacy to contemporary writers and readers.
Literature & FictionLiteraryClassicsGenre FictionComing of Age
RELEASED2019
PUBLISHERBrilliance Audio
LANGUAGEEN
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source][1].) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian][2]: > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outside the genre. I learned a lot from reading the ever-subversive Virginia Woolf. > I was 17 when I read [Orlando][3]. It was half-revelation, half-confusion to me at that age, but one thing was clear: that she imagined a society vastly different from our own, an exotic world, and brought it dramatically alive. I'm thinking of the Elizabethan scenes, the winter when the Thames froze over. Reading, I was there, saw the bonfires blazing in the ice, felt the marvellous strangeness of that moment 500 years ago – the authentic thrill of being taken absolutely elsewhere. > How did she do it? By precise, specific descriptive details, not heaped up and not explained: a vivid, telling imagery, highly selected, encouraging the reader's imagination to fill out the picture and see it luminous, complete. > In [Flush][4], Woolf gets inside a dog's mind, that is, a non-human brain, an alien mentality – very science-fictional if you look at it that way. Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail. I imagine Woolf looking down at the dog asleep beside the ratty armchair she wrote in and thinking what are your dreams? and listening . . . sniffing the wind . . . after the rabbit, out on the hills, in the dog's timeless world. > Useful stuff, for those who like to see through eyes other than our own. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf [2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39360W/Orlando [4]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39320W/Flush
