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    The Iron Heel

    Written by Jack London

    Narrated by James Hamill

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    Set in the future, The Iron Heel describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith.

    Published in 1908, Jack London's multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOregan Publishing Audio
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9782291052395
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    Jack London

    Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer who produced two hundred short stories, more than four hundred nonfiction pieces, twenty novels, and three full-length plays in less than two decades. His best-known works include The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

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    • 3/5
      This is London’s all out assault on capitalism, oligarchy and its supporting institutions: church, press, university, bourgeoisie.

      Its not well appreciated that he was a committed socialist who toured the US giving firey speeches against capitalism and for revolution.

      The novel’s style is hopelessly didactic — yet he sets up and devastatingly knocks down every classic argument and rationale made in support of the corrupt political economy of capitalism, which has only gotten worse since publication in 1908!

      He foresaw wars, revolutions, fascism and aspects of culture that seem prescient today.

      London’s portrayal of revolutionary street battles depicted in the chapter People of the Abyss reprises his related short story “South of the Slot.”

      Set in San Francisco like this novel and reprised here, it remains the finest of its rare kind.

      A Bay Area native, Jack London set many of his stories and novels in and near San Francisco which he knew intimately.
    • 5/5
      THIS BOOK IS NOT COMPLETE. Otherwise brilliant if you're into leftie politics.
    • 5/5
      A unique distopian book that has no equal. What a prolific book that is full of story telling and our possible future.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Listen to this book. Listen to how prescient the story is, and how, with just a few changes to a few names, this story stops being a stab at the possibilities of the future and begins to exist as a predicting vision of the horrors the future can bring. Then, once you've finished, remind yourself that this was written in 1908; long before the US went to war with Germany, years before the fall of the Czars, long before any other predictions he made.

      Read this book.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I didn’t know of this particular book by American author Jack London. As every story and novel he’s written. A brilliant story of the continuous struggle of the working man and the corporate machine.

      2 people found this helpful