num_pages: 335
description: Novelist and short story writer Jack London (1876-1916) contemplated the strange theory of astral travel, penning The Star Rover in 1914. The last of London's fifty books, which include White Fang and The Call of the Wild, The Star Rover centers on San Quentin prison inmate Darrell Standing, a former university professor who is serving a life sentence for murdering a colleague. To escape the tortures of his confinement, he withdraws into dreams of past lives in which he experiences what he calls his "eternal recurrence on earth." Thus the fantastic becomes a vehicle for exposing the social injustices of the U.S. prison system.
language: English
title: The Star Rover
titlecomplete: The Star Rover (Literary Classics)
characters: Darrell Standing
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Science Fiction, American, Americana, Fantasy, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 8219
places: California
publisher: Prometheus