The Jacket (The Star-Rover) - Softcover

London, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 935656101X ISBN 13: 9789356561014

Verlag: Double 9 Books, 2022

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The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American essayist Jack London distributed in 1915 (distributed in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is an account of reincarnation.A outlining story is told in the principal individual by Darrell Standing, a college teacher serving life detainment in San Quentin State Prison for homicide. Jail authorities attempt to break his soul through a torment gadget called "the coat," a material coat which can be firmly bound to pack the entire body, initiating angina. Standing finds how to endure the torment by entering a sort of daze state, in which he strolls among the stars and encounters parts of past lives.I trample interstellar space, commended by the information that I was bound on immense experience, where, toward the end, I would track down every one of the inestimable formulae and have clarified to me a definitive mystery of the universe. In my grasp I conveyed a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I should contact each star in passing. Also, I knew, in everything completeness, that did I however miss one star I ought to be accelerated into some unplummeted pit of unbelievable and timeless discipline and culpability.

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John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London (12 January 1876-22 November 1916), was an American author who pioneered the art of commercial fiction, which made him a prominent figure of the international literary arena. As a part of the radical literary group, 'The Crowd,' London projected his socialist ideas through his works. Known as a rebel in his teens, London also spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy. The experience of imprisonment motivated him to attend college to become a writer.

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• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 935656101X
• ISBN 13: 9789356561014
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
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