The Wanderer of the Stars, or the Straitjacket
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The Wanderer of the Stars, or the Straitjacket
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Sailor, gold digger, vagabond, socialist, war correspondent, laborer, the highest paid writer in the United States - in all American literature you will not find a more romantic biography than Jack London. After living only forty years, he left more than forty books written in a wide variety of genres. In this collection, Jack London does not retreat from his usual role - the author of works in which strong and selfless heroes go through the harsh trials of life - but at the same time appears dreamer and fantasist, wandering through fictional worlds of possible past and future. Thus, the hero of the novel "Wanderer in the Stars, or Straitjacket" acquires an amazing ability to liberate the subconscious and travel to other eras, re-living his past lives; in the novel "Iron Heel" with us speaks a narrator from the distant XXVII century, commenting on the notes of a girl from the twentieth century, the events of the novel "Scarlet Plague" relate to the XXI century, it is about the catastrophe that befell humanity, the hero of the story "Before Adam" from the fragments of dreams reconstructs the life of his distant ancestor. Alternating humor and drama, Jack London tells about the barbaric underside of the latest era, the primordial chaos of passions, lurking under the thin cover of human culture, the "call of the ancestors", discernible through many centuries of world history, the eternal cycle of time.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Big books