Jacob's Room

About this film

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) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (164MB)

Directors & creators

Virginia Woolf

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;bildungsroman; the lost generation

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