Novel

Jacob’s Room

by Virginia Woolf

A life told from its edges: Jacob Flanders as a boy at the seaside, at Cambridge, in London and in Greece, always seen by someone else. Virginia Woolf’s third novel, of 1922, was her first clean break with the ordinary novel. The empty room at the end says what the book will not.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 40 min

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5670. In the public domain in the United States.