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"The Iron Heel", american classic written by Jack London in 1908, is considered one of the earliest novels of modern Dystopian Fiction, which would lead to works later known as Soft Science Fiction.
Jack London, a socialist himself, portrays America under tyrannical rule, the terrible oppression of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement.
London describes the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police and military, terrorise the citizenry. They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4, 1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52 socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for treason...
"The Iron Heel" is based on Avis Everhard's fictional "Everhard Manuscript" and was written by London as a woman's first person narrative, not a common writing style at the time.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, General Fiction, Action and Adventure
Length8 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 30, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Chapter 1. My Eagle
3Chapter 2. Challenges
4Chapter 3. Jackson's Arm
5Chapter 4. Slaves Of The Machine
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6Chapter 5. The Philomaths
7Chapter 6. Adumbrations
8Chapter 7. The Bishop's Vision
9Chapter 8. The Machine Breakers
10Chapter 9. The Mathematics Of A Dream
11Chapter 10. The Vortex
12Chapter 11. The Great Adventure
13Chapter 12. The Bishop
14Chapter 13. The General Strike
15Chapter 14. The Beginning Of The End
16Chapter 15. Last Days
17Chapter 16. The End
18Chapter 17. The Scarlet Livery
19Chapter 18. In The Shadow Of Sonoma
20Chapter 19. Transformation
21Chapter 20. A Lost Oligarch
22Chapter 21. The Roaring Abysmal Beast
23Chapter 22. The Chicago Commune
24Chapter 23. The People Of The Abyss
25Chapter 24. Nightmare
26Chapter 25. The Terrorists