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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.
It is based on Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel. [ 1 ] The main theme of London's book was the rise of a mass Socialist movement in the United States, with the potential to take power and implement a radical Socialist program, and its suppression by a well-organized coup of conservative Oligarchs .
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When London wrote the book, the phrase "the Abyss", with its connotation of Hell, was in wide use to refer to the life of the urban poor.It featured in H. G. Wells's popular 1901 book Anticipations multiple times, along with the phrase "the People of the Abyss", [6] which he would use again in Chapter 3 of Mankind in the Making (1903).
These quotes from Dr. Seuss are full of whimsy and wisdom. Read on for the best quotes from "Oh, the Places You'll Go" and more children's books by Dr. Seuss.
The Iron Heel of Oligarchy (Russian: Железная пята олигархии Zheleznaya pyata oligarkhii) is a 1999 Russian drama film directed by and starring Aleksandr Bashirov. It tells the story of a man who tries to organise a revolution against the oligarchs in Russia .
German students of English learn that "happy end" is not correct. The correct form is: happy ending.217.251.180.195 17:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC) Well the common idiom in english refering to a story's end is "happy ending".