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Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Twenty-fifth Man by : Ed Morrell
Download or read book The Twenty-fifth Man written by Ed Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scarce book about the terrible experiences of the last survivor of the Evans-Sontag band of train robbers. The author helped Sontag escape jail and became a hunted man with him." The foreword by Arizona Governor George W.P. Hunt and the introduction by Dr. Raymond S. Ward, Montclair, New Jersey are quite revealing about the torture and sufferings of the author while imprisoned at San Quentin, California. Jack London held the author in high regard as he credited Morrell with helping him develop his masterpiece THE STAR ROVER--
Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Star Rover (the Jacket) by Jack London by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover (the Jacket) by Jack London written by Jack London and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STAR ROVER (THE JACKET) By JACK LONDON 1915
Book Synopsis The Star Rover (the Jacket) Jack London by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover (the Jacket) Jack London written by Jack London and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication date: 1915 - Large Print Edition
Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover" is 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. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, "The Star Rover" is "written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.
Author :Jack London Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781535131988 Total Pages :148 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Jacket written by Jack London and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe. In my hand I carried a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I must touch each star in passing. And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt.
Book Synopsis Jack London First Editions by : James E. Sisson
Download or read book Jack London First Editions written by James E. Sisson and published by Oakland, Calif. : Star Rover House. This book was released on 1979 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James E. Sisson III, 1917-1986, of Vernon, Alabama, began studies in 1960 at the University of California, Berkeley, with Professor James D. Hart, and began his research on Jack London in 1970. Sisson's contributions to the field of Jack London scholarship were impressive. Joan London considered Sisson the premiere authority on her father, and Jack London scholars around the world respected and admired his work. Discovering previously unpublished Jack London plays at the Library of Congress, Sisson had London's play Gold published for the first time by the Holmes Book Company. He collected and published London's high school writings in Jack London's Articles and Short Stories in the (Oakland) High School Aegis; edited and co-authored with Dale Walker The Fiction of Jack London: A Chronological Bibliography; and compiled several bibliographies, including Jack London First Editions, The Non-Fiction of Jack London, The Collected Poems of Jack London, and Jack London and the South Seas: A Chronological Bibliography. Sisson regularly published pamphlets, articles, and reviews on Jack London in newsletters and newspapers, and reviewed almost every London work published since 1960. A tireless worker and advocate on behalf of London scholarship, he assisted many other researchers with grants and materials. Sisson's French heritage influenced his participation in Paris publications of London's writings. When editor Francis Lacassin translated London's science fiction story, "Star Rover" (1915) into French as "Le Vagabond des Etoiles," Sisson helped with extensive original research.
Book Synopsis The Star Rover (1915). by by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover (1915). by written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is a story of reincarnation.Plot summary:A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe. In my hand I carried a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I must touch each star in passing. And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt.Background:The accounts of these past lives form the body of the work. They are a series of powerfully written, but disconnected and unresolved, vignettes set in different ages and cultures. The writing is uneven, sometimes sinking to the level of purple prose. According to Kevin Starr, London planned a historical novel about the American West and used some of this material in The Star Rover.The jacket was actually used at San Quentin at the time; Jack London's descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which London used as a name for a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch...John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction.Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos� The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
Book Synopsis The Star Rover by Jack London by : Jack Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover by Jack London written by Jack Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece. A must-read.
Book Synopsis The Jacket (The Star-Rover) by : London, Jack
Download or read book The Jacket (The Star-Rover) written by London, Jack and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of eight essays and memoirs by American adventure writer and journalist Jack London, published in 1917. In the title essay, London explores the evolution of civilization.
Book Synopsis The Star Rover Illustrated by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover Illustrated written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It isScience Fiction-General, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
Author :Jack London Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781720693086 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis The Star Rover (1915) . by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover (1915) . written by Jack London and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is science fiction, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe. In my hand I carried a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I must touch each star in passing. And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt
Book Synopsis Call of the Atlantic by : Joseph McAleer
Download or read book Call of the Atlantic written by Joseph McAleer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph McAleer uses fresh archival material to explore Jack London's publishing career outside of North America. He illuminates the relationships with publishers and agents, principally in Britain, as a key to understanding the character, drive, and international success of this popular figure of 20th century American letters.
Book Synopsis The Star Rover Annotated by : Jack London
Download or read book The Star Rover Annotated written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is science fiction, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
Book Synopsis The Jacket, Or The Star Rover (Illustrated) by : Jack London
Download or read book The Jacket, Or The Star Rover (Illustrated) written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is science fiction, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina.
Author :Jack London Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781986365871 Total Pages :470 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (658 download)
Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Quentin, death-row inmate Darrell Standing, 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. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is "written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
