The Jacket: (Jack London Classics Collection), by Jack London
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You have forgotten much, my reader, and yet, as you read these lines, you remember dimly the hazy vistas of other times and places into which your child eyes peered. They seem dreams to you to-day. Yet, if they were dreams, dreamed then, whence the substance of them? Our dreams are grotesquely compounded of the things we know. The stuff of our sheerest dreams is the stuff of our experience. As a child, a wee child, you dreamed you fell great heights; you dreamed you flew through the air as things of the air fly; you were vexed by crawling spiders and many-legged creatures of the slime; you heard other voices, saw other faces nightmarishly familiar, and gazed upon sunrises and sunsets other than you know now, looking back, you ever looked upon.
The Jacket: (Jack London Classics Collection), by Jack London - Published on: 2015-03-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .55" w x 6.00" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 244 pages
The Jacket: (Jack London Classics Collection), by Jack London About the Author Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer who produced two hundred short stories, more than four hundred nonfiction pieces, twenty novels, and three full-length plays in less than two decades. His best-known works include The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Good book By A. Corcoran I really enjoyed this book, it was a lot of different genres of short stories all mixed together really eloquently. This is an older book, so the language is a little different. I was glad i had a kindle because i had to use the built in dictionary a few times, which doesn't happen often. While everyone may not enjoy this, I'm sure many will. I don't personally believe in reincarnation, but it was still a really interesting book. And it's free. Here is a short summary of the plot.The book is about a professor that is in prison for murder in the early 1900s. He ends up in solitary confinement and after making some friends is taught to relive past lives. He uses this to escape the torture he is put through by the warden and in this book is supposedly writing his memoirs. He does get tortured quite a bit, if you don't want to read about torture, this book may not be for you.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. good book By card girl I read this book a few years ago, so I'm writing this review based on my memory of the book. The story kept you involved with the characters. I must tell you the story was disturbing to me, but I had to finish it because I was so drawn into the story. The Star Rover is about a man in prison whom the guards place in solitary confinement, and a strait jacket. It was disturbing to me because of the pain the guards inflicted upon the inmates. His fellow inmates inform him of the process of roving to stay alive while in the jacket.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. No bars can hold him By Karl Janssen Darrell Standing is an inmate in San Quentin Prison. A former professor of agronomics at the University of California, he was convicted of a murder he admittedly did commit. Once incarcerated, he is wrongly accused of a conspiracy to escape, and unjustly sentenced to solitary confinement. He spends five long years in solitary, during which he endures frequent beatings and long periods bound in a straitjacket. The near suffocating constriction of the jacket has an unexpected side effect. Over time, Standing develops the ability to separate his consciousness from his imprisoned body, enabling him to travel through time and space to experience past lives. Among the many personalities he inhabits while in the jacket are Count Guillaume de Saint-Maure, a swordsman of medieval France; Jesse Fancher, a nine-year-old member of a wagon train crossing Utah in 1857; a nameless 4th-century hermit in Egypt; Adam Strang, a 16th century Englishman, supposedly the first white man to set foot in Korea; Ragnar Lodbrog, a Norse-born Roman centurion in the service of Pontius Pilate; Daniel Foss, a seal hunter shipwrecked on an Antarctic isle in the early 19th century; and a series of prehistoric tribesmen representative of various ages of mankind's distant past. In his death row cell, Standing compiles a manuscript detailing the biographies of these past lives, as well as the harsh conditions he endures at San Quentin.The Star Rover, also known as The Jacket, was published in 1915. Though considered a novel, the book really reads more like a collection of short stories loosely tied together by the prison narrative. Like most of Jack London's work in the genre of science fiction, it is audaciously imaginative and years ahead of its time, yet it may have been conceived simply as an opportunity for London to try his hand at historical fiction. While the Kiplingesque tale in Korea and the wilderness survival tale of the shipwrecked sailor seem right at home within his body of work, the swashbuckling French story seems more fitting to Alexandre Dumas, while the tale of the Roman soldier is reminiscent of Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur. London seems to relish the opportunity to cast his net so far afield, but he achieves mixed results. There is little cohesion between the various lives or with the prison story that frames them. In the penultimate chapter, London tries to tie everything together with a sweeping panorama of the history of mankind, interwoven with his philosophy of the meaning of life. While the conclusions he reaches in this chapter are arguable, the power and mastery of his writing is undeniable. It's as grandiose and hyperbolic as anything he's ever written, straddling the line between genius and mania.Fans of London will enjoy this book because it's like a Frankenstein's monster of all of his pet interests: agricultural science, prison reform, evolution, seal hunting, prehistoric man, the supernatural, sailing, Korea, manifest destiny, and so on. It's like a patchwork quilt of clippings from his entire career. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who's new to London, because to the uninitiated reader it might all just seem like a big incoherent mess. Like many of London's works, there's also an unfortunate undercurrent of racism. Standing only seems to be able to channel Aryan males, and many of the stories share the theme of the blonde-haired, blue-eyed race conquering the globe. Thankfully it's more subtle and less offensive than some of London's more overt statements on race. For most of the book, London speaks of humanity in universal terms, and The Star Rover reads like a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. At times it can be quite inspirational, at times depressingly brutal, and at other times just plain bizarre.
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