nWhat do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacobs room. nWho is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolfs third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyces Ulysses and T.S. Eliots The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; nyoung men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacobs Room tells a new nstory for a new century. n nIn 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacobs Room a most wonderful achievement--more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal. One hundred years after its publication, Woolf s first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible nmysteries of intimacy and mortality. nn