The Jacket: The Star-Rover (Jack London)
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781535131988
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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.
- | Author: Jack London
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jul 07, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 148 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1535131985
- | ISBN-13: 9781535131988
- Author:
- Jack London
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jul 07, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 148 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1535131985
- ISBN-13:
- 9781535131988