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Harry Bridges, influential labor leader in the mid-1900s, was "set afire" by Jack London's The Sea-Wolf and The Iron Heel. [6] Granville Hicks, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, was reminded of The Iron Heel: "we are taken into the future and shown an America ruled by a tiny oligarchy, and here too there is a revolt that fails." [7]
The Iron Heel is an example of a dystopian novel that anticipates and influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. [118] London's socialist politics are explicitly on display here. The Iron Heel meets the contemporary definition of soft science fiction. The Star Rover (1915) is also science fiction.
[13] [14] While The Iron Heel is a pro-socialist novel, some socialists take issue with that label due to the book's racism and pessimistic attitudes. [14] The 1969 novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door by black author Sam Greenlee is also seen as a possible influence on The Turner Diaries ; the release of its film adaption was controversial and ...
Jack London – The Iron Heel, Martin Eden; Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, Twice-Told Tales, Septimus Felton; John William De Forest – Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty; Herman Melville – "Roman Statuary" [citation needed] James Fenimore Cooper – The Bravo, The Pioneers
Right in this city such propaganda is being carried on and in the little out of the way places as well. And we know that throughout Canada this propaganda is being put forward by organizations from foreign lands that seek to destroy our institutions. And we ask that every man and woman put the iron heel of ruthlessness against a thing of that kind.
7. "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." 8. "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." 9. "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it ...
The Iron Heel: Jack London: 1908 Novel Banned by the Nazis along with two other London novels, Martin Eden and The Jacket. [124] Works Bertolt Brecht: 1918–1933 Plays, Novels, Poetry, Non-fiction All of Brecht's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [124] The Outline of History: H. G. Wells: 1920 Non-fiction
The Iron Heel (Russian: Железная пята, romanized: Zheleznaya pyata) is a 1919 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin. It is based on Jack London 's 1908 novel The Iron Heel . [ 1 ]