The first edition of the novel was published in may 1906, and was written by jack london. He spent time in the klondike during the gold rush and also worked as or was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer and a hobo. Click on file format for free download of each book. Free books of north american literature in english, pdf, epub, mobi, fb2, azw3, kindle. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The star rover is unknown compared to londons other works but this is an amazing book. My hand covered the face of him, and a hearty will of weight was in the. Jack london was an american author who wrote the call of the wild, white fang, and the sea wolf along with many other popular books.
Very unique book that is unlike anything else jack london wrote. A pioneer in the thenburgeoning 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. Project gutenberg offers 61,597 free ebooks to download. A framing story is told in the first person by darrell standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in san quentin state prison. The star rover is the story of san quentin deathrow inmate darrell standing, who escapes the horror of prison lifeand long stretches in a straitjacketby withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a french nobleman and an englishman in medieval korea. The star rover by jack london book club discussion. Wells,abraham merritt,edgar wallace,jules verne,edgar allan poe,mary shelley,edwin a. Would you attribute this to the book s difficult subject matter or something else. Abbott,jack london,robert louis stevenson,george macdonald,henry rider haggard,william hope hodgson,h. The miraculous mark malone available for download and read online in other formats. A pioneer in the thenburgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first americans to make a.
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