Jacob's Room: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jacob's Room, 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 Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. Read by LibriVox Volunteers The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jacob's Room
• Author credits: Virginia Woolf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:04:45

Catalogue topics

• Woolf
• English literature
• fiction

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 13:33
2. Chapter 02 — 26:13
3. Chapter 03 — 31:01
4. Chapter 04 — 38:37
5. Chapter 05 — 21:54
6. Chapter 06 — 20:59
7. Chapter 07 — 12:40
8. Chapter 08 — 21:29
9. Chapter 09 — 34:35
10. Chapter 10 — 23:22
11. Chapter 11 — 21:45
12. Chapter 12, Part 1 — 21:32
13. Chapter 12, Part 2 — 26:35
14. Chapter 12, Part 3 — 18:27
15. Chapter 13 — 29:20
16. Chapter 14 — 2:49

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