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Description

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 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.

Table of Contents:
MY EAGLE
CHALLENGES
JOHNSON'S ARM
SLAVES OF THE MACHINE
THE PHILOMATHS
ADUMBRATIONS
THE BISHOP'S VISION
THE MACHINE BREAKERS
THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM
THE VORTEX
THE GREAT ADVENTURE
THE BISHOP
THE GENERAL STRIKE
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
LAST DAYS
THE END
THE SCARLET LIVERY
IN THE SHADOW OF SONOMA
TRANSFORMATION
THE LAST OLIGARCH
THE ROARING ABYSMAL BEAST
THE CHICAGO COMMUNE
THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
NIGHTMARE
THE TERRORISTS' to '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.