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Written in the early years of the twentieth century, The Iron Heel takes certain circumstances of the time, anchored in the tension between socialism and capitalism, and posits a two tiered future - a more immediate future of socialist revolution, and a centuries-distant, near-Utopian future in which that revolution has finally succeeded. In addition to exploring themes relating to the aforementioned tension, the book also explores the universality of human existence...

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The Iron Heel

96,967 words, approx. 324 pages

FOREWORD It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historical document.  To the historian it bristles with errors—not errors of fact, but errors of interpretation.... Read more

Jack London Biographies (7)

Jack London

414 words, approx. 2 pages

American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and mov... Read more

Jack London

5,527 words, approx. 19 pages

"I wanted to be where the winds of adventure blew," Jack London once wrote of his decision to take to the seas as an oyster pirate at the age of fifteen. "There was vastly more romance in being an oys... Read more

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While historians of American literature have routinely placed Jack London among the Naturalists, there are among his enormous output a number of works that belie such classification. Three of the nove... Read more

Jack London

13,328 words, approx. 45 pages

Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire... Read more

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"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: ... Read more

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Jack London was a native Californian who achieved worldwide acclaim as a powerful storyteller, a legendary public figure, and America's most commercially successful writer. Joseph Conrad acknowledged ... Read more

Jack London

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Biography EssayJack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-m... Read more

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