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 at 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 Friend's Conversations, or the Thoughts of the Women Who Adore Him. Then We Glimpse Him As a Young Man, Caught Under the Glare of a London Streetlamp. It is 1914, He is Twenty-Six, and Europe is on the Brink of War ! This Tantalizing Novel Heralded Woolf's Bold Departure From the Traditional Methods of the Novel, With Its Experimental Play Between Time and Reality, Memory and Desire.