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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 56 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Penguin twentieth-century classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Helen Lloyd. |
| Summary |
Jacob's Room was written in 1922 and is Virginia Woolf's third novel, the first in which she made a radical shift from the established style of prose narrative writing and began experimenting with the modernist 'stream of consciousness style' now so firmly associated with her work and which so shook the literary establishment. Jacob's Room is overwhelmingly centered around feelings of absence and emptiness and is a collection of memories and sensations that chart the life of Jacob Flanders, largely observed through the eyes of others. The narrative flows from one topic and one character to another without warning or explanation and there appears to be little connection between these fragments. Likened by some to an impressionist painting, Jacob's Room was far ahead of its time and still appears strikingly modern almost a century after it was written. It remains a challenging and richly rewarding literary experience. "The audiobook is given a thoughtful, sensitive narration by Helen Lloyd, who portrays the many characters in Jacob Flanders's life with period correctness and precise diction…From the letters to Jacob written by his mother, the memories of the women who cared for him, and the observations of those who knew or thought they knew him, we get shifting impressions of Jacob as he moves through his life. Lloyd's artful performance offers finesse and well-defined characters." "The impossible has occurred…A new type of fiction has swum into view." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Roe, Sue.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781665074810 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1665074817 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14431749 |
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