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 in English by Jesse Bordwin; Yelena; Tina Isaacs; deongines 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jacob's Room
• Author credits: Virginia Woolf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 5:57:43

Catalogue topics

• bildungsroman
• the lost generation

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter One — 16:30
2. 02 - Chapter Two — 31:11
3. 03 - Chapter Three — 37:30
4. 04 - Chapter Four — 33:54
5. 05 - Chapter Five — 22:00
6. 06 - Chapter Six — 19:38
7. 07 - Chapter Seven — 12:54
8. 08 - Chapter Eight — 21:46
9. 09 - Chapter Nine — 32:42
10. 10 - Chapter Ten — 22:46
11. 11 - Chapter Eleven — 19:17
12. 12 - Chapter Twelve — 1:00:51
13. 13 - Chapter Thirteen — 24:19
14. 14 - Chapter Fourteen — 2:25

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