Jacob's Room in Never too Late to Read Classics

Nov 28, 2017 Chrissie rated it really liked it

Shelves: hf, classics, england, 2017-read, greece, ww1, audible-uk, italy

This is Virginia Woolf’s third novel. It was published in 1922. It is considered her most experimental. It is definitely my favorite!

What Woolf was trying to do, and which I think she marvelously succeeds with, is to capture how it feels to experience life. There is less of a focus on what a person does, more on how we internally perceive and react to everyday events. She seems to me to be attempting to capture the inner life of individuals, and not just one individual but many. We are delivered ...more

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Nov 02, 2012 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mtbr-challenge-2014, fiction-20th-century, kindle, british-literature, e-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, novellas, gutenberg, read-2014

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Opening lines:
“So of course,” wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, “there was nothing for it but to leave.” ...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Melissa (ladybug) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-adult, yearly-challenge

Listened to an audio of this book on my mini tablet while at work. I am still unable to get into Woolf's books. I continue to read them because most of them are on the 1001 list. If it wasn't for that I would not read any more of them. ...more

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Apr 06, 2020 Nada rated it really liked it · review of another edition

"I intend to come to Greece every year so long as I live," Jacob wrote to Bonamy. "It is the only chance I can see of protecting oneself from civilization." ...more

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