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The Iron Heel

by Jack London

First published: 1908
Pages: 233

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00 - Foreword
8:39
01 - My Eagle
28:51
02 - Challenges
27:41
03 - Jackson's Arm
21:04
04 - Slaves of the Machine
16:26
05 - The Philomaths
42:29
06 - Adumbrations
15:03
07 - The Bishop's Vision
12:45
08 - The Machine Breakers
29:13
09 - The Mathematics of a Dream
32:53
10 - The Vortex
18:10
11 - The Great Adventure
15:36
12 - The Bishop
20:15
13 - The General Strike
18:23
14 - The Beginning of the End
16:26
15 - Last Days
11:02
16 - The End
19:38
17 - The Scarlet Livery
17:54
18 - In the Shadow of Sonoma
16:47
19 - Transformation
16:55
20 - A Lost Oligarch
14:42
21 - The Roaring Abysmal Beast
12:42
22 - The Chicago Commune
22:59
23 - The People of the Abyss
24:49
24 - Nightmare
12:18
25 - The Terrorists
3:59

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In this pioneering dystopian novel, London imagines a brutal capitalist oligarchy—the Iron Heel—crushing a socialist uprising in early twentieth-century America, told through the memoir of a revolutionary's wife discovered centuries later. Fierce, prophetic, and politically charged, it anticipates the rise of fascism and totalitarian control decades before they emerged. Blending romance, propaganda, and speculative history, the novel is a passionate warning about inequality and the machinery of oppression. Influential on later dystopian writers from Orwell onward, The Iron Heel is a gripping and disturbing vision of class war and tyranny, revealing the radical political conscience behind London's adventure fiction.

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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.