Jacob's Room (version 2)
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)
Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Chapter One | Jesse Bordwin |
00:16:30 |
| Play 02 | Chapter Two | Jesse Bordwin |
00:31:11 |
| Play 03 | Chapter Three | Jesse Bordwin |
00:37:30 |
| Play 04 | Chapter Four | Jesse Bordwin |
00:33:54 |
| Play 05 | Chapter Five | Jesse Bordwin |
00:22:00 |
| Play 06 | Chapter Six | Jesse Bordwin |
00:19:38 |
| Play 07 | Chapter Seven | Jesse Bordwin |
00:12:54 |
| Play 08 | Chapter Eight | Jesse Bordwin |
00:21:46 |
| Play 09 | Chapter Nine | Jesse Bordwin |
00:32:42 |
| Play 10 | Chapter Ten | Jesse Bordwin |
00:22:46 |
| Play 11 | Chapter Eleven | Jesse Bordwin |
00:19:17 |
| Play 12 | Chapter Twelve | Yelena |
01:00:51 |
| Play 13 | Chapter Thirteen | Tina Isaacs |
00:24:19 |
| Play 14 | Chapter Fourteen | Deon Gines |
00:02:25 |