The Star Rover
by Jack London
While death row inmate Darrell stands, San Quentin escapes the horrors of prison life, and lies for a long time in a straitjacket — locking himself into vivid dreams of past lives, including his incarnation as a French nobleman and Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London's friend Ed Morrell, this work is one of the author's most complex and original works. As Lorenzo Carcaterra notes in The Introduction, Star Rover is "written with energy and strength, walking brightly through the worlds of pure cruelty and beauty.
