Length6h 15m
About this audiobook
Jacob's Room is the novel where Virginia Woolf truly found her modernist voice—a groundbreaking work that traces the life of Jacob Flanders not through direct narrative, but through the impressions, memories, and scattered thoughts of those who encounter him. We follow Jacob from his childhood on a windswept Cornish beach, through his years at Cambridge, to his adventures in London and travels through Italy and Greece. Yet Jacob himself remains an elusive figure, seen only in fragments: through his mother Betty's quiet grief, through the women who love him—the repressed Clara Durrant, the uninhibited Florinda—and through friends who barely understand him.
Set against the gathering shadows of the First World War, this is a novel built on absence and silence. Rooms empty, sentences break apart, and grief becomes something felt in the wind and rain rather than spoken aloud. Woolf transforms loss into art, creating what many consider the first true expression of her genius—a poetic, nearly plotless meditation on how we can never truly know another person, and how war swallows the young before we have the chance to try.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in Cactus catalogue
9CHAPTER EIGHT
2CHAPTER ONE
10CHAPTER NINE
3CHAPTER TWO
11CHAPTER TEN
4CHAPTER THREE
12CHAPTER ELEVEN
5CHAPTER FOUR
13CHAPTER TWELVE
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6CHAPTER FIVE
14CHAPTER THIRTEEN
7CHAPTER SIX
15CHAPTER FOURTEEN
8CHAPTER SEVEN
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