Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Volume 1, credited to Dorothy Richardson, 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 Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Volume 1 by Dorothy Richardson. Read by Expatriate "Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. In a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918), May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in her discussion of Richardson's stylistic innovations. Richardson, however, preferred the term "interior monologue." Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. Richardson also important as a feminist writer because of the way her work assumes the validity and importance of female experiences as a subject for literature. Her wariness of the conventions of language, her bending of the normal rules of punctuation, sentence length, and so on, are used to create a feminine prose, which Richardson saw as necessary for the expression of female experience. Virginia Woolf in 1923 noted that Richardson "has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender." (summary from Wikipedia [edited by Expatriate])

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Volume 1
• Author credits: Dorothy Richardson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 5:56:14

Catalogue topics

• women's literature
• autobiographical fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 01 — 20:33
2. 02 - Chapter 02 — 15:59
3. 03 - Chapter 03, Sections 01-05 — 20:14
4. 04 - Chapter 03, Sections 06-13 — 21:29
5. 05 - Chapter 03, Sections 14-18 — 18:24
6. 06 - Chapter 03, Sections 19-21 — 20:27
7. 07 - Chapter 04 — 14:32
8. 08 - Chapter 05, Sections 01-08 — 20:20
9. 09 - Chapter 05, Sections 09-17 — 20:27
10. 10 - Chapter 06, Sections 01-06 — 18:31
11. 11 - Chapter 06, Sections 07-12 — 20:07
12. 12 - Chapter 06, Sections 13-17 — 15:20
13. 13 - Chapter 06, Sections 18-22 — 17:03
14. 14 - Chapter 07 — 3:09
15. 15 - Chapter 08, Sections 01-04 — 14:47
16. 16 - Chapter 08, Sections 05-09 — 15:02
17. 17 - Chapter 08, Sections 10-14 — 16:23
18. 18 - Chapter 09 — 8:08
19. 19 - Chapter 10, Sections 01-05 — 20:28
20. 20 - Chapter 10, Sections 06-11 — 22:28
21. 21 - Chapter 10, Sections 12-13 — 12:22

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