Star-Rover by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Star-Rover by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison…
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Star-Rover by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Yet even then did I know I had been a Star-Rover . . . Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket".
And now he is sentenced to hang! * He has been imprisoned in San Quentin and subjected to the tortures of the damned for a crime he cannot reveal the details of -- for he knows nothing of it! "The fools!" he rails.
"As if they could throttle my immortality with their clumsy device of rope and scaffold! I shall walk, and walk again, oh, countless times, this fair earth! And I shall walk in the flesh -- be prince and peasant, savant and fool, sit in the high place and groan under the