The Jacket (or Star Rover): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Jacket (or Star Rover) by Jack London: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 28 original MP3 tracks, 10:07:46 running time and a link to listen.
The Jacket (or Star Rover), credited to Jack London, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Jacket, by Jack London. Read by Barry Eads. This book by Jack London was published under the name of "The Jacket" in the UK and "The Star Rover" in the US. 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. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. The jacket itself was actually used at San Quentin at the time and Jack London's descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which is also the name of a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Jacket (or Star Rover)
- Author credits: Jack London
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 28
- Listed recording duration: 10:07:46
Catalogue topics
- adventure
- fiction
- short stories
- star rover
- jacket
Opening tracks: first 24 of 28
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 12:08
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 15:41
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 12:37
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 15:10
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 15:31
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 18:47
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 16:59
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 10:46
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 7:44
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 10:13
- 11 - Chapter 11, Part 1 — 25:02
- 12 - Chapter 11, Part 2 — 28:41
- 13 - Chapter 12 — 37:10
- 14 - Chapter 13, Part 1 — 24:31
- 15 - Chapter 13, Part 2 — 25:06
- 16 - Chapter 14 — 16:46
- 17 - Chapter 15, Part 1 — 39:41
- 18 - Chapter 15, Part 2 — 38:27
- 19 - Chapter 16 — 13:48
- 20 - Chapter 17, Part 1 — 26:26
- 21 - Chapter 17, Part 2 — 42:00
- 22 - Chapter 18 — 7:42
- 23 - Chapter 19, Part 1 — 30:38
- 24 - Chapter 19, Part 2 — 30:45
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