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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 ...
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 .
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".
The Tar Heel publishes daily online, but a print version comes only once a week. This week's print edition was set to publish on Wednesday and was slated to be a 16-page preview dedicated to ...
Smith recounts the story of his life before the plague, when he was an English professor. The then future year of 2013 is described as a plutocratic society reminiscent of London's other books such as the Iron Heel with Smith recalling "Morgan the Fifth was appointed President of the United States by the Board of Magnates". The Scarlet Plague ...
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor ...