A Room of One's Own: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Room of One's Own, credited to Virginia Woolf, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Read in English by Cori Samuel. This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First published on 24 October 1929, the extended essay was based on a series of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf at Cambridge University in October 1928. While it employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled “Women and Fiction”, and hence the essay, are non-fiction. - Summary by Cori Samuel

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Room of One's Own
• Author credits: Virginia Woolf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 4:03:10

Catalogue topics

• women
• essay
• feminism
• writing

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 47:52
2. 02 - Section 2 — 35:41
3. 03 - Section 3 — 35:08
4. 04 - Section 4 — 45:23
5. 05 - Section 5 — 35:22
6. 06 - Section 6 — 43:44

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