A novel that was banned by Soviet censorship for many decades.
Jack London, slightly hiding behind the mask of entertaining genre prose, returns once again to the Nietzschean idea of the Superman!
A novel that was banned by Soviet censorship for many decades. Jack London, slightly hiding behind the mask of entertaining genre prose, returns once again to the Nietzschean idea of the Superman—an idea that excited him for many years and found expression in a number of his late works.
The respectable passengers of the ship “Elsinore” find themselves under the power of the rebellious sailors, among whom stand out several smart, fearless, and cruel “real men,” ready to die and kill in the name of absolute freedom. Thus begins the dangerous journey of the “Elsinore” across distant southern seas—during which anything can happen…