The Star-Rover by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure - Hardcover

London, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603125779 ISBN 13: 9781603125772

Publisher: Aegypan, 2008

Synopsis

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". Yet even then did I know I had been a Star-Rover . . . * He has been imprisoned in San Quentin and subjected to the tortures of the damned for a crime he cannot reveal the details of -- for he knows nothing of it! And now he is sentenced to hang! "The fools!" he rails. "As if they could throttle my immortality with their clumsy device of rope and scaffold! I shall walk, and walk again, oh, countless times, this fair earth! And I shall walk in the flesh -- be prince and peasant, savant and fool, sit in the high place and groan under the wheel!"

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Review:

"A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious. . . . [A work of] true power." --Andrew Sinclair

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

Synopsis:

Yet even then did I know I had been a Star-Rover ...* He has been imprisoned in San Quentin and subjected to the tortures of the damned for a crime he cannot reveal the details of -- for he knows nothing of it! And now he is sentenced to hang! "The fools!" he rails. "As if they could throttle my immortality with their clumsy device of rope and scaffold! I shall walk, and walk again, oh, countless times, this fair earth! And I shall walk in the flesh -- be prince and peasant, savant and fool, sit in the high place and groan under the wheel!" In The Star-Rover we meet Jack London's stunning character Darrel Standing -- a man who frees himself to wander time and space.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1603125779
• ISBN 13: 9781603125772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228