Jack London 3 - The Star Rover & Other Stories - Jack London

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Résumé :
Renowned as a writer of classic adventure stories such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London also had a parallel career as a writer of science fiction and fantasy. In Leonaur's three volume, The Collected Science Fiction & Fantasy of Jack London, his SF and fantasy novels and shorter works are brought together for the first time. ? Darrell Standing is a university professor and convicted murderer. He's also The Star Rover. During long spells in solitary confinement, his body immobilised by a canvas jacket that prevents all movement, he develops a technique that allows his non-corporeal self to wander through time and home in on lives that were his before he was Darrell Standing. His adventures - engaging, vivid and exciting - offer an eye-witness perspective on a past that might have been. This volume also includes three entertaining shorter works that show Jack London as a more than worthy contemporary of H. G. Wells....

Biographie:
John Griffith Chaney (nascido em S?o Francisco, no 12 de janeiro de 1876 na Calif?rnia, morreu a 22 de novembro de 1916 no seu Beauty Ranch), autor, jornalista e ativista social norte-americano com refer?ncias marxistas, pioneiro da sua era, fez ent?o parte do novo mundo das revistas comerciais de fic??o, tendo sido um dos primeiros romancistas a obter celebridade mundial atrav?s das suas hist?rias, al?m de uma grande fortuna. Jack London (seu pseud?nimo), ? um dos mais importantes autores da literatura norte-americana do fim do s?culo XIX, princ?pio do s?culo XX. Escreveu centenas de contos, entre eles alguns vision?rios e magistrais que determinaram os caminhos da literatura ocidental, bem como magn?ficos romances.Apesar da jovem idade em que faleceu, Jack London deixou-nos uma extensa obra liter?ria. A sua vida focou-se na sobreviv?ncia - come?ou a trabalhar ainda em crian?a - e no sonho vir a ser escritor e viver da sua escrita. Para o conseguir London abra?ou os mais diversos desafios, foi lutador de boxe, marinheiro e garimpeiro, e foi ap?s a sua viagem durante a Febre do Ouro no Klondike que Jack London se decidiu definitivamente a tornar-se escritor, e foi na sua ?poca o primeiro a lograr a fama mundial....

Sommaire:
Renowned as a writer of classic adventure stories such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London also had a parallel career as a writer of science fiction and fantasy. In Leonaur's three volume, The Collected Science Fiction & Fantasy of Jack London, his SF and fantasy novels and shorter works are brought together for the first time. ? Darrell Standing is a university professor and convicted murderer. He's also The Star Rover. During long spells in solitary confinement, his body immobilised by a canvas jacket that prevents all movement, he develops a technique that allows his non-corporeal self to wander through time and home in on lives that were his before he was Darrell Standing. His adventures - engaging, vivid and exciting - offer an eye-witness perspective on a past that might have been. This volume also includes three entertaining shorter works that show Jack London as a more than worthy contemporary of H. G. Wells....