The Iron Heel (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack London
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: 1918 to 2832
- Setting: The United States, principally San Francisco and Chicago
- Principal Characters: Avis Everhard, Ernest Everhard, John Cunningham, Bishop Morehouse, Anthony Meredith, Anna Roylston
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: History, United States or Americans, Socialism, Future, Class consciousness, 1910’s, Capitalism, Fascism
- Locales: Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA
The Novel
The Iron Heel is supposedly taken from a fragmentary manuscript written in the early twentieth century by Avis Everhard, the militant socialist widow of the socialist leader Ernest Everhard, whose militancy results in his execution by an American fascistic organization called “the Iron Heel,” the militant arm of the great corporate monopolies. The monopolies suppress an uprising of socialist workers who have organized a Chicago commune and rule the United States until 2232, when socialist power eventually triumphs. Avis had hidden her manuscript away in...
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