• A new edition of Virginia Woolf's third novel - her first full-length experimental work - edited with an Introduction and Notes by Urmila Seshagiri
• 2022 marks the centenary of Jacob's Room, first published on 26 October, 1922
• This edition reproduces Woolf's original 1922 Hogarth Press text
• An adept Introduction which brings Jacob's Room into current conversations about the modernist movement and establishes its significance for Woolf's development as an author
• Detailed maps allow the reader to follow Jacob's travels throughout the novel

New to this Edition:

• New explanatory endnotes for the 21st-century reader, including historical and literary references, geographical sites, terms that have passed out of common usage, and connections to Woolf's other writings
• A compositional chronology of Jacob's Room featuring excerpts from Woolf's diaries and letters
• Overviews of Woolf's published reviews and essays as well as her work at the Hogarth Press

    
'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages — oh, here is Jacob's room.'
     
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast and student days in Cambridge to adventures in London and a magnificent tour of Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps him at a distance, breaking down traditional ways of representing character, and concealing Jacob's motives and emotions. Killed in the Great War at the novel's end, Jacob emblematizes an entire generation of Englishmen whose lives ended with shocking abruptness, every promise unfulfilled.
     
In 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.