Le vagabond des étoiles

by Jack London, Paul Gruyer (Translator) & Louis Postif (Translator)

First published: Date unknown
Language: French
Content type: Fiction

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"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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies.

Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences
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Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies
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Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2021-05-21	Project Gutenberg	French	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)