Jenny: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jenny, credited to Sigrid Undset, 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 Jenny by Sigrid Undset. (Translated by W. Emme.) Read in English by Expatriate Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicating passion for Beauty. Yearning for an immortal Love, she allows herself to fall into less-than-ideal romantic relationships and then has to struggle with all her might to recover her independence. Constantly resisting conformity, she demands absolute freedom for herself while always being tempted to fall back into the comfortable ruts of provincial domesticity. A profound psychological study of the social Outsider, the person who “sees through” the shallow façades of human social convention, this novel might also be seen as an early fictional exploration of the existentialist insistence on individual choice in all its terrifying responsibility. Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset, most famous for her later epic “Kristin Lavransdatter,” published this dark, remarkable, psychologically-dense novel in 1911, when the author was the same age as her protagonist and experiencing many of the same existential choices. ( Expatriate)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jenny
• Author credits: Sigrid Undset
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 9:16:45

Catalogue topics

• women's literature
• norwegian literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Part One, Chapter 01 — 22:50
2. 02 - Part One, Chapter 02 — 32:09
3. 03 - Part One, Chapter 03 — 17:03
4. 04 - Part One, Chapter 04 — 18:30
5. 05 - Part One, Chapter 05 — 14:50
6. 06 - Part One, Chapter 06 — 17:50
7. 07 - Part One, Chapter 07 — 20:54
8. 08 - Part One, Chapter 08 — 23:25
9. 09 - Part One, Chapter 09 — 12:38
10. 10 - Part One, Chapter 10 — 17:44
11. 11 - Part One, Chapter 11 — 6:49
12. 12 - Part Two, Chapter 01 — 12:24
13. 13 - Part Two, Chapter 02 — 12:10
14. 14 - Part Two, Chapter 03 — 7:37
15. 15 - Part Two, Chapter 04 — 8:10
16. 16 - Part Two, Chapter 05 — 18:52
17. 17 - Part Two, Chapter 06 — 17:38
18. 18 - Part Two, Chapter 07 — 11:32
19. 19 - Part Two, Chapter 08 — 8:37
20. 20 - Part Two, Chapter 09 — 18:52
21. 21 - Part Two, Chapter 10 — 26:55
22. 22 - Part Three, Chapter 01 — 22:33
23. 23 - Part Three, Chapter 02 — 12:15
24. 24 - Part Three, Chapter 03 — 20:01

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