“Jacob''s Room”

is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders. Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob''s childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob''s life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy and then Greece. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)