Jacob's Room (version 2)
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose repeatedly shifts its point of view and the reader is challenged to find connections between the narrative fragments. Largely from the comments of others we come to know the sequence and some moments of Jacob’s life but we never fully learn who Jacob is. The literary experimentation in Jacob’s Room is used even more successfully in Woolf’s later novels. (Summary by DaveC) (5 hr 57 min)
Chapters
Chapter One | 16:30 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Two | 31:11 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Three | 37:30 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Four | 33:54 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Five | 22:00 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Six | 19:38 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Seven | 12:54 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Eight | 21:46 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Nine | 32:42 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Ten | 22:46 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Eleven | 19:17 | Read by Jesse Bordwin |
Chapter Twelve | 1:00:51 | Read by Yelena |
Chapter Thirteen | 24:19 | Read by Tina Isaacs |
Chapter Fourteen | 2:25 | Read by Deon Gines |