| The Iron Heel Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595690379 ISBN-13: 9781595690371 Publisher: MONDIAL OUR PRICE: $13.92 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: The Iron Heel is interesting as an example of a "dystopian" novel which anticipates and influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Jack London's (1876-1916) socialist politics are explicitly on display here. Its description of the capitalist class forming an organised, totalitarian, violent oligarchy to crush the working-class forewarned in some detail the Fascist dictatorships of Europe. Given it was written in 1908, this prediction was some-what uncanny, as Trotsky noted while commenting on the book in the 30s. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006927637 |
| Series: American Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 176 pages |