The Iron Heel (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

London, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0143039717 ISBN 13: 9780143039716

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

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Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government surveillance and authority. What begins as a war of words ends in scenes of harrowing violence as the state oligarchy, known as "the Iron Heel," moves to crush all opposition to its power.

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Jack London (1876–1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike river in north-west Canada, which became the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Jack London became one of the most widely read writers in the world.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

Foreword

 

CHAPTER I - MY EAGLE

CHAPTER II - CHALLENGES

CHAPTER III - JACKSON’S ARM

CHAPTER IV - SLAVES OF THE MACHINE

CHAPTER V - THE PHILOMATHS

CHAPTER VI - ADUMBRATIONS

CHAPTER VII - THE BISHOP’S VISION

CHAPTER VIII - THE MACHINE BREAKERS

CHAPTER IX - THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM

CHAPTER X - THE VORTEX

CHAPTER XI - THE GREAT ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XII - THE BISHOP

CHAPTER XIII - THE GENERAL STRIKE

CHAPTER XIV - THE BEGINNING OF THE END

CHAPTER XV - LAST DAYS

CHAPTER XVI - THE END

CHAPTER XVII - THE SCARLET LIVERY

CHAPTER XVIII - IN THE SHADOW OF SONOMA

CHAPTER XIX - TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER XX - A LOST OLIGARCH

CHAPTER XXI - THE ROARING ABYSMAL BEAST

CHAPTER XXII - THE CHICAGO COMMUNE

CHAPTER XXIII - THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

CHAPTER XXIV - NIGHTMARE

CHAPTER XXV - THE TERRORISTS

 

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THE IRON HEEL

JACK LONDON (1876-1916) led a wild and colorful life. As a youth he left school at fourteen and worked in a cannery, as an oyster pirate, and as a member of the Fish Patrol in San Francisco Bay. He traveled throughout the country, joined the Gold Rush to the Klondike in 1897, sailed to the Caribbean, studied London’s East End slums, and reported on the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst papers. He read voraciously and always dreamt of being a writer. His short stories of the Yukon were published in magazines and in a collection, The Son of the Wolf, in 1900, bringing him fame. Thereafter he published an enormous number of stories and many novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Martin Eden.

 

JONATHAN AUERBACH is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins University. In addition to publishing articles and books on such American authors as Poe and London, he has also written extensively on film, particularly early cinema. He has been awarded Fulbright Fellowships to Portugal, Cyprus, and Tunisia, and has lectured on American studies in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Japan.

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First published in the United States of America by The Macmillan company 1907
This edition with an introduction by Jonathan Auerbach published in Penguin Books 2006

 

 

Introduction copyright © Jonathan Auerbach, 2006

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
The iron heel / Jack London ; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Auerbach ;
notes by Jordan Schugar.
p. cm.—(Penguin classics)
Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN : 978-0-143-03971-6

I. Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954- II. Title. III. Series.
PS3523.O46I7 2006
813’.52—dc22 2005058624

 

 

 

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Introduction

Googling the phrase “the iron heel” produces some surprising results. Although Jack London, in his novel, dramatizes the moment his hero Ernest Everhard coins the term to refer to the despised Oligarchy (see chapter 9), we discover it circulating in a number of prior late-nineteenth-century literary and political texts to signify various kinds of oppression. The Duke in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1884) histrionically bemoans his fate “to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel,” while a Henry James character in The Bostonians (1885) invokes it more specifically to mean patriarchy: “They [women] had been trampled under the iron heel of man.” In an 1888 speech, President Grover Cleveland gives it a still sharper thrust, contrasting “trusts, combinations, and monopolies” with “the citizen [who] is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel.”

If we think London, James, and Cleveland make for strange bedfellows, the case grows even more curious when we search the Internet for more recent...

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143039717
• ISBN 13: 9780143039716
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Auerbach Jonathan
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