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The Iron Heel (Mint Editions (Scientific and Speculative Fiction))

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The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was inspired by London’s socialist views and belief in an eventual global upheaval. Although his predictions proved wrong for the United States of the early- twentieth century, London was recognized by such figures as George Orwell for his foresight regarding the rise of fascism in Europe. The novel is told from the perspective of a scholar named Anthony Meredith who lives in the post- revolutionary Brotherhood of Man in the year 2600 AD. Having discovered the “Everhard Manuscript,” a record of the rise of the Oligarchy in twentieth century America that provides the bulk of the narrative, Meredith writes the introduction and extensive footnotes throughout. The Manuscript is the story of Avis Everhard, a young woman who becomes radicalized by the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and eventually leads a failed revolution against the Oligarchy. While the frame narrative provides a sense of hope for the future of humanity, the Manuscript describes a society crushed by the consolidation of economic and political power by a wealthy few, who control all aspects of everyday life and rule with the help of a ruthless mercenary army. As she rises through the ranks of the resistance movement, Everhard comes to understand that the sacrifices required of a hero must be made for a future she holds little hope of seeing. This edition of Jack London’s The Iron Heel is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mint Editions


Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 15, 2022


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 218 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1513134116


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 16


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.63 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #713,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,095 in Political Fiction (Books) #1,467 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) #1,479 in Science Fiction Short Stories


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    • Wonderful foresight from London
This 2006 edition of Jack London's sci-fi work is most wonderful and well deserves a critical examination. Unlike other utopian or dystopian fictions, this story is presented as a fictionalized witness account of an unfinished manuscript, with later annotations from a fictionalized editor across the space of 700 years in the future. Such temporal construction is very special in such genre. Infiltration, espionage, analysis on political power, political theorizing, fictionalized biography, they are all in this wonderful story that the author prophesies that would happen to a modern society that the power of labor is on the rise and the oligarchs trying to contain the radical power from below. This is the first my first Jack London story and I am very pleased with the wonderful dimension the story opens up for readers. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019 by Ivan's choice
    • Jack London's Socialist Fantasy
Jack London (1876-1916) is best known for writing fiction for young adults focusing on life in the frontier, such as The Call of the Wild. However, he was also an ardent socialist and wrote Iron Heel as his dream of what a socialist revolution might look like. Iron Heel, which was written in 1908, is also one of the first examples of dystopian fiction that probably influenced later authors as they wrote their dystopian future histories. I like to think about it as the "grandfather" of dystopian novels, along with We (Modern Library Classics). The novel is the memoires of Avis Everhard and focuses on the exploits of her husband, Ernest Everhard during the start of the socialist revolution in America and the establishment of the authoritarian regime, the Iron Heel. Avis' manuscript is discovered by historians six hundred years in the future and of the novel's most entertaining features are the various footnotes with historical commentary on the revolution and its ultimate victory. Ernest himself is an ideal man. He is a self-educated working class philosopher who never loses an intellectual argument and who is always right in his predictions...as confirmed by his wife and the footnotes. Although Ernest is an ardent socialist, he is also compassionate man who does much to help the poor and downtrodden. The story is fast-paced and centers around the collapse of the United States as we know it and its replacement by the Iron Heel, a government run by and for large capitalists. The Iron Heel engages in a brutal war against the working class--both through "divide and conquer" techniques and brutal warfare. It is an easy book to read with a good mix of argument and action (Ayn Rand could have learned a lot from London's style!). One annoying feature of the novel is that Ernest is perhaps too perfect and his opponents are too much of straw men. Some readers commented on how right London is on his prediction that the oligarchy has taken over politics. There is nothing really prophetic about this novel as it is built around a failed and incorrect economic theory. As an economist, I have to object to the underlying Marxist theories of economy. Marx (and through him, London) did not allow for technological change (or productivity gains) that has turned the economy from a zero-sum game to a growing pie. While there is certainly room to fight over who gets what share, the picture is not as bleak as Marx imagined. Likewise, economic evolution does not seem to move in one direction and the winners and losers are constantly changing--Facebook did not exist ten years and Microsoft and Apple did not exist thirty years ago. US Steel today is a footnote. Finally, while conspiracies do exist, they are hard to maintain. While it might be in the interest of all "oligarchs" to act in one way, it is unlikely that they will do so. Interestingly, I think that today the novels like Iron Heel tend to be written more about a leftist state running amok and trampling individual freedom (once again, Ayn Rand) than right-wings oligarchies doing the same. For me, Iron Heel is well written and entertaining novel. Although I don't subscribe to the socialist doctrine underlying the novel, it is still well worth it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2012 by Erik Bloom
    • The Iron Heel Vs. The Iron Heart
The book has a simple idea behind it. The story is treated like a manuscript written by Avis Everhard, the wife to Ernest Everhard the American Revolutionary. Written in the early 20th Century is if found seven centuries later. Jack London's insight in the workings of how those who have power keep it is amazing. The street fighting, the bombings, the use of military force, all happened in one form or another in the years following the book's publication in 1907. Before Facism, before thw world wars, he sees a class struggle for control of our machine civilization (a term other authors will pick up) and his vision is very, very crisp. I find the fact that the American Oligarchy had a jail in Cuba kind of ironic. And that one of their great wonder cities, the one called Asgard, was completed in 1984 to be kind of funny in a way. But Jack's picture of a socialist revolt and maybe future society is not very pleasing to the eye. As the conflict grows both sides become ruthless, heartless, clones of each other. They kill, bomb, spy and use people. They both use the lower class, those poor folks in the abyss, the very ones the socialists are trying to save. In the fighting in Chicago Avis sometimes can't tell the difference between those comardes fighting on her side and the soldiers fighting for the government. When she sights a wounded man, a man from the bottom of the class system, a beast so low that he knows he will recieve no help from anybody, she does not even OFFER to help. Many of the female socialists, bomb tossing terrorists, refuse to have children because it would take them away from fighting for the cause. In other words having a family gets in the way of killing people. No wonder it took them three centuries to overthrow the Iron Heel. The fact is both sides want the same thing - to rule the planet. By the end of the book I was not really cheering on either group. Also much of the book, when there isn't any action, is one large boring lecture. In the end it was worth reading because of my interest in dystopia fiction but that is it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2006 by Michael Valdivielso
    • whats happening
I first read The Iron Heel when I was 24 and in Prison. It was at the time to me one more and only another of a long line of distopian novels, like 1984, Brave New World and Animal Farm. 34 years later it looks to me like Jack London was prescient. The concentration of disproportonate wealth in amerika is 3 x what it was in the 70's. The Rich do what they want, own the Govt and Industry, and grind the poor unemployed masses into the earth. The analysis of the classes with the economic mode London employed in his book is similar to current socialist economists such as John Bellamy Foster and Paul Krugman, and I would recommend anyone with a social conscience to read this, as it is a scathing review of amerika today written a century ago by a fabled socialist. We can only hope that the outcome is similar. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2011 by jeb

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