Jacob's RoomBy: Virginia Woolf 'Her first full work of the charged Modernism that would come to define her' Paris Review Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student in Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions: whether through his mother's letters, his