First published in 1922 Jacobs Room was Virginia Woolfs third novel and thefirst in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the FirstWorld Wa... » 

First published in 1922 Jacobs Room was Virginia Woolfs third novel and thefirst in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the FirstWorld War the work is an elegy not just for an individual character but fora generation lost in and affected by the war. This Shakespeare Head Pressedition restores the text to its original form notably recreating the spacebreaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. Theeditor provides an extensive introduction discussing the genesis of the novelits biographical elements the process of composition and revision and thehistory of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader toidentify references and allusions from spongebag trousers and gold beatersskin to Tonks and Steer and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs while an appendixlists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work. «