Jack London is a masterful storyteller. London spent some time living in Germany while writing The Sea Wolf. Humphrey was a gentle intellectual boy who was forced through circumstance to toughen up and become self-reliant. Humphrey was taken off a sinking ship by a cruel schooner captain. The captain takes an interest in his new cabin boy. When a woman castaway is picked up Humphrey falls in love. The two are cast off on a desert island and are forced to survive intolerable conditions.

Jack London was one of the first writers to write for fictional magazines. He was also one of the first American writers to earn a living just from his writing. Martin Eden is a writer who resembles London. When Eden sent a manuscript off in the mail he thought there was no human editor at the other end. There must be a machine designed to take the papers out of one envelope and put them into another one and address it for return. This idea has made this novel a favorite with writers who can empathize with Eden.

Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White fang. Star Rover was published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket. It is a series of short stories loosely joined together. This story of reincarnation centers on Darrell Standing who is a university professor serving a life sentence in San Quentin for murder. Prison officials use the jacket (a torture device) a try and break his...