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The Scarlet Plague

by Jack London

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First published: 1912
Pages: 72

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03 - Chapter 3
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04 - Chapter 4
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05- Chapter 5
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In the year 2073, six decades after a lightning-fast epidemic emptied the world, an old man roams the wild California coast with grandsons who have never seen a city or opened a book. Once an English professor, he struggles to make them understand what was lost when the Scarlet Death carried off nearly everyone in a matter of days. Jack London pictures civilization stripped back to campfires and superstition, its learning already fading into legend, and asks how fast generations of progress can come undone. Written long before such stories were common, it stands as an early landmark of pandemic and post-apocalyptic fiction. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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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.