- Fiction, Young men, World War, 1914-1918, Classic Literature
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- BLACKWELL, Warbler Press, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 309
- Language
- Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, und
- ISBN
- 9781075394362
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“So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave."”
Virginia Woolf 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. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general
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