Jacob Flanders is seen first as a boy on a Cornish beach while his widowed mother Betty writes a tearful letter, then at Cambridge, in London lodgings and on travels to Greece. Woolf builds him from fragments, the impressions of mothers, lovers, friends and strangers, so that the man himself remains just out of reach.
Woolf’s first truly experimental novel, published in 1922 and a quiet elegy for a generation lost to the war. Download the free EPUB.