HarperCollins is proud to present the unique series of beloved classic books. Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first attempt at Modernism experimentation. The narrative follows Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an expressive portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant, and the beautiful but married Sandra Wentworth Williams. This web of romance, however, is unraveled by the devastating events of the First World War. Woolf tenderly portrays Jacob's life through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, dialogue excerpts, and the ephemeral impressions of those closest to him. Jacob's voice becomes the absent center of one of the first great novels of Modernism.