Volume Eight of the Complete Works of the outstanding American writer Jack London (1876–1916) includes the novel “Mutiny on the Elsinore.” Respectable passengers aboard the ship “Elsinore,” having stepped on board, unexpectedly discover that the crew consists of some strange individuals: madmen, drunks, cripples, people of questionable origin, recruited at the very last minute along the shore. But among the crew there are also others: smart, brave, ruthless men, ready to commit any crime… Later, the novel’s plot was used in world literature many times; for example, in Julio Cortázar’s famous novel “Hopscotch.” In the USSR, the novel was banned for 64 years as “Nietzschean.”