Jack London
Paperback | Pages: 266 pages Rating: 4.26 | 5026 Users | 410 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Star Rover |
| ISBN: | 0812970047 (ISBN13: 9780812970043) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Darrell Standing |
| Setting: | San Quentin State Prison, California(United States) |
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The Star Rover, in the UK published as The Jacket, is a collection of short stories revolves around the concept of reincarnation. It tells the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life —and long stretches in a straitjacket— by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London’s friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author’s most complex and original works.Define Containing Books The Star Rover
| Title | : | The Star Rover |
| Author | : | Jack London |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 266 pages |
| Published | : | November 11th 2003 by Modern Library (first published 1914) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Literature. American. The United States Of America. Americana |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 5026 Users | 410 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Star Rover
This novel is really a series of short adventure stories. The narratives are tied together in the recollections of a death-row inmate who has learned to visit his many re-incarnations throughout history. London's take on the penal system, capital punishment, and religion are generously applied to the main story frame. When the book was written, these views were pretty radical, and this attitude of daring makes up for some of the excess in verbiage and plot. There are people who will be annoyedHaving read "The Sea-Wolf" and "Call of the Wild", I expected this novel to be another story of adventure and comradeship, but "The Star Rover" is much more experimental than those novels. At the opening, meet Darrell Standing, who has been imprisoned for murder and is waiting to be hanged. He undergoes excruciating torment by being regularly shut in a straight-jacket, sometimes for periods of ten days. London gives the reader an account of the inhumanity and torture in prisons, and as an
Who knew that Jack London could write such fascinating SCIENCE FICTION??!
Wow, what a ride. Adventurous, philosophical, shattering.
The concept is really interesting and I'd sure love to read more of it... with a different main character. Standing is a whiny petty idiot who can't see beyond his own nose. Yes, everything that happens to him is terrible, I know that intellectually. Had it been any other character, I'd feel terrible for them. But this one is just so utterly insufferable I can only think he deserves it.
This is a fascinating book that is part biography, part paranormal fantasy, part historical fiction, and finally, part treatise against capital punishment and other punishments in the California penal system at the beginning of the twentieth century. This story was inspired by experiences of a friend of London's who was imprisoned in California during that time. London's friend, Ed Morrell, claimed that while placed in a strait jacket for long periods in solitary confinement, he was, in spirit,
There is a lot to write about this book. Death seems like a petty thing for Darrell Standing who is about to be hanged for killing his professor. The mere thought of being confined in a solitary makes you wiser and closer to understanding what's the reality of your true self, it also makes you ponder the perplexing questions which people are afraid to answer. London narrates his previous selves traveling beyond his prison walls living thousands of lives, he is a vagabond that roves in the past
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