Jacob's Room - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156457423 ISBN 13 : 9780156457422

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1950

Synopsis

By Woolf, Virginia ( Author ) [ Jacob's Room By Jan-1950 Paperback

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

First published in 1922, Jacob s Room was Virginia Woolf s third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war.

This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge–bag trousers and gold beater s skin to Tonks and Steer, and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs; while an appendix lists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) 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. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1950
• ISBN 10: 0156457423
• ISBN 13: 9780156457422
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 180