| The Iron Heel Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1536941468 ISBN-13: 9781536941463 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 222 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes Those of you who read other works by Jack London and think that this is some adventure story set in Alaska or on a ship at sea or something? Not this one It's a Dystopian of pure breed: The everlasting struggle between good and evil. The good guys here are the ordinary people, i.e. us, and the evil one is the caste of oligarchs running the country along with their puppet show of politicians and the judicial branch, working in their favor. Avis Cunningham gets to know young Ernest Everhard in her father's house in 1912. Everhard is an educated member of the working class, a genuine socialist, and impresses the young woman with his knowledge of the conditions of inequality in their country. The two fall in love and eventually marry. Their battle is henceforth the class enemy, the oligarchs upper class, called the Iron Heel by Everhard. At the beginning of the 1930s it comes to the inevitable bloody revolt against the oppressors. The revolt fails. Everhard, like thousands of others, is executed. The fight, however, continues. The events of the turbulent period from 1912 until the Revolution in 1932 is written down by Avis Everhard in the so-called Everhard Manuscript and is the content of this novel. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Great Classics: The Call of the Wild by Jack London https: //www.createspace.com/6420473 White Fang by Jack London https: //www.createspace.com/6420475 The Game by Jack London https: //www.createspace.com/6420507 Brown Wolf and Other Stories by Jack London https: //www.createspace.com/6420896 Smoke Bellew by Jack London https: //www.createspace.com/6418962 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane https: //www.createspace.com/6473204 The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane https: //www.createspace.com/6447605 The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane https: //www.createspace.com/6475101 Lady Susan by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6398116 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6425513 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428190 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428537 Persuasion by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6427638 Love and Friendship by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6439962 Daisy Miller (1879) by Henry James https: //www.createspace.com/6445037 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu https: //www.createspace.com/6451809 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront https: //www.createspace.com/6444859 |