Jacob's RoomVirginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War that is pervaded throughout by a sense that "nobody sees any one as he is". Jacob's Room marks a radical departure from the conventions of realist fiction by seeking to evoke the experiential texture of human cognition and urban modernity in an entirely