Wanderer in the stars, or a straition shirt. London J.

sailor, gold minister, tramp, socialist, military correspondent, a laborer, the highest paid writer in the United States, in all American literature cannot find a more romantic biography than Jack London. Having lived only forty years, he left more than forty books written in various genres.

In this collection, Jack London does not depart from the usual role for himself - the author of works in which strong and selfless heroes pass through harsh life trials - but at the same time appears as a dreamer and a dreamer who wraps the fictional worlds of the possible past and future. So, the hero of the novel “Wanderer in the Stars, or a Sunny Shirt” acquires an amazing ability to liberate the subconscious and travel to other eras, re -living his past lives; In the novel “Iron Feet”, the narrator from the distant XXVII century, commenting on the notes of the girl from the age of twentieth, speaks with us; The events of the novel "Scarlet Plague" dates back to the XXI century, it refers to the catastrophe that befell humanity; The hero of the story “To Adam” from the scraps of dreams reconstructs the life of his distant ancestor.

Alternating humor and drama, Jack London tells about the barbaric inside out of the latest era, about the primitive chaos of passions lurking under the subtle cover of human culture, about the “name of the ancestors”, distinguishable through many centuries of world history, about the eternal cycle of times.