The iron heel

Summary

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London. Published in 1908, it recounts a tumultuous period in the first half of 20th-century America in which a rising socialist movement threatens to win national elections and take power, but then is crushed by a corporate-controlled oligarchy known as the "Iron Heel". The events in the book are told via a long-lost manuscript, written by the wife of a key socialist leader, that is discovered and analyzed centuries later. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (25)

1. 1. My Eagle
2. 2. Challenges
3. 3. Jackson’s Arm
4. 4. Slaves of the Machine
5. 5. The Philomaths
6. 6. Adumbrations
7. 7. The Bishop’s Vision
8. 8. The Machine Breakers
9. 9. The Mathematics of a Dream
10. 10. The Vortex
11. 11. The Great Adventure
12. 12. The Bishop
13. 13. The General Strike
14. 14. The Beginning of the End
15. 15. Last Days
16. 16. The End
17. 17. The Scarlet Livery
18. 18. In the Shadow of Sonoma
19. 19. Transformation
20. 20. A Lost Oligarch
21. 21. The Roaring Abysmal Beast
22. 22. The Chicago Commune
23. 23. The People of the Abyss
24. 24. Nightmare
25. 25. The Terrorists