Jack London 
The Jacket (The Star-Rover) 

Jack London’s science fiction novel 'The Star-Rover’ is also published in the United Kingdom as 'The Jacket’. It features themes of both mysticism and reincarnation. Darell Standing, an American college professor had committed the murder of his colleague in a fit of rage. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at a Californian State Prison, where he underwent a series of tortures. He is put into a tight fitting jacket device to constrict him. To cope with the resulting pain, Darell devices a way to go into a trance that takes him back to experiences of his past lives…