Jacob's Room (version 2)


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(4.2 stars; 10 reviews)

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