Mutiny on Elsinore

A novel that was under ban by Soviet censorship for many decades. Jack London, slightly concealing himself behind the mask of captivating genre prose, again returns to the Nietzschean idea of the superman, which had troubled him for many years and found expression in many of his later works. Respectable passengers of the ship "Elsinore" find themselves at the mercy of the mutinous sailors, among whom stand out several clever, fearless, and ruthless "real men" ready to die and kill in the name of absolute freedom. Thus begins the perilous adventure of the "Elsinore" through distant southern seas, – an adventure during which anything can happen…