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The Star Rover

By Jack London
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra

By Jack London
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra

By Jack London
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra

By Jack London
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $15.00

Nov 11, 2003 | ISBN 9780812970043

Ebook $2.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307432650

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    About The Star Rover

    The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life—and long stretches in a straitjacket—by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London’s friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author’s most complex and original works. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is “written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty.”

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.

    About The Star Rover

    The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life—and long stretches in a straitjacket—by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London’s friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author’s most complex and original works. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is “written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty.”

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.

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    About Jack London

    Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London

    About Jack London

    Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 11, 2003 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812970043

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 18, 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307432650
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    “A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious. . . . [A work of] true power.” —Andrew Sinclair

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