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WOOLF, V.: Jacob's Room (Unabridged)
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Published in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and The Waste Land, Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s own modernist manifesto. Ostensibly a study of a young man’s life on the eve of the Great War, it is really a bomb thrown into the world of the conventional novel, as she attempts to capture the richness and randomness of life’s encounters. Jacob Flanders is a mere point of contact between a crowd of people, appearing and disappearing in a tableau in which all is flux, without certainty and without a controlling viewpoint. But it seems that the author could not maintain this rigorous impersonality, and the radical technique breaks down, so that we finally see Jacob as a person, just as his world is blown apart.
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Jacob's Room
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'Oh, a huge crab,' Jacob murmured …
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The bareness of Mrs. Pearce's front room was fully displayed…
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Chapter 2
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The entire gamut of the view's changes…
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'Oh, bother Mr. Floyd!' said Jacob…
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'Dear me,' said Mrs. Flanders…
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Wednesday was Captain Barfoot's day.
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Mrs. Jarvis walked on the moor when she was unhappy…
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Chapter 3
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An inclined plane of light comes accurately through each window…
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There can be no excuse for this outrage…
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Where they moored their boat the trees showered down…
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Coming down the steps a little sideways…
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But language is wine upon his lips.
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The laughter died in the air.
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Chapter 4
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It is a tremendous argument.
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Although it would be possible to knock at the cottage door…
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Mrs. Durrant took the reins in her hands…
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But Miss Eliot, tall, grey - headed…
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'Thank you, Timothy, but I'm coming in,' said Miss Eliot.
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Chapter 5
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Nothing could appear more certain from the steps of St. Paul's…
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Then two thousand hearts in the semi - darkness remembered…
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'I like Jacob Flanders,' wrote Clara Durrant in her diary.
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Chapter 6
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At this moment there shook out into the air…
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They sat at a little table in the restaurant.
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Chapter 7
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'Julia Eliot. It is Julia Eliot!' said old Lady Hibbert…
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Chapter 8
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Let us consider letters…
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It was as if a stone were ground to dust…
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The lamps of London uphold the dark…
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Chapter 9
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'Any day this week except Thursday,' wrote Miss Perry…
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Jacob remained quite unmoved.
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There is in the British Museum an enormous mind.
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'Oh, my dear, let me lean on you,' gasped Helen Askew…
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Chapter 10
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Fanny Elmer took down her cloak from the hook.
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'Dear, miss, she's left her umbrella,' grumbled the mottled woman…
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At ten o'clock in the morning…
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Chapter 11
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'Have you met all the painter men' said Jinny.
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'Jacob's letters are so like him,' said Mrs. Jarvis, folding the sheet.
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Chapter 12
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No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are…
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There are very few good books after all…
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She laid her spoon upon her plate…
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Still, a lady of fashion travels with more than one dress…
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The extreme definiteness with which they stand…
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Then, making sure that the Frenchwomen had gone…
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'But sometimes it is precisely a woman like Clara…
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'Evan is happier alone,' said Sandra.
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Sandra Wentworth Williams certainly woke…
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Chapter 13
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They had reached the site of the old Exhibition.
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Even now poor Fanny Elmer was dealing…
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Timmy Durrant in his little room in the Admiralty…
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Chapter 14
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