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The Jacket (The Star Rover)

by: London, Jack, 1876-1916

Publication date: 1915

Publisher: London Mills & Boon c1915

Collection: robarts; toronto

Contributor: Robarts - University of Toronto

Language: English

A novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the UK as The Jacket). A collection of short stories, connected by the narrative of a prisoner serving a life sentence in San Quentin where officials torture him with a jacket device. The prisoner learns to mentally escape his circumstances by entering into a trance and experiencing past lives. The lives of others constitute the short chapters. The London novel may have served as inspiration for the 2005 film The Jacket with Adrien Brody.

Addeddate: 2007-08-11 02:26:16

Call number: ABX-2762

Camera: 5D

Copyright-evidence: Evidence reported by lexw@archive.org for item jacketthestarrov00londuoft on August 11, 2007: visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1915.