Le vagabond des étoiles by Jack London
"Le vagabond des étoiles" by Jack London is a novel published in 1915. Professor Darrel Standing awaits execution in California's Folsom Prison, where he has endured years in solitary confinement and torture by straitjacket. Through self-hypnosis, he escapes his unbearable reality by experiencing past lives—as a French count, a Dutch sailor, a Viking warrior, and more. This work blends stark prison realism with fantastical journeys through time, serving as both a fierce
denunciation of America's brutal prison system and a testament to human imagination's power to transcend suffering. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | London, Jack, 1876-1916 |
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| Translator | Gruyer, Paul, 1868-1930 |
| Translator | Postif, Louis, 1887-1942 |
| Uniform Title | The star rover. French |
| Title | Le vagabond des étoiles |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Vagabond_des_%C3%A9toiles |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Prisoners -- Fiction |
| Subject | Reincarnation -- Fiction |
| Subject | Paranormal fiction |
| Subject | California State Prison at San Quentin -- Fiction |
| Subject | Death row inmates -- Fiction |
| Subject | San Quentin (Calif.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Astral projection -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 65405 |
| Release Date | May 21, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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