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The Iron Heel
- Narrado por: Jacques Richey
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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The Iron Heel by Jack London is a dystopian novel first published in 1908. The narrative is unusual in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man.
Predicting future changes in society and politics, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. The main narrative covers the years 1912 - 1932, in which the Iron Heel oligarchy arose in the United States.
Canada, Mexico, and Cuba formed their own oligarchies and were aligned with the U.S. while in Asia, Japan created an empire in Asia, and Europe became socialist. (London remains silent as to the fates of South America, Africa, and the Middle East.)
In North America, the Oligarchy hold power for three centuries until it is overthrown by a revolution which ushers in the Brotherhood of Man.
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Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.
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My favorite Jack London book.
- De j daly en 11-26-14
De: Jack London
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Eugenics and Other Evils
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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During the first three decades of the 20th century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western notions of progress - biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he calls "a more general criticism of the modern craze for scientific officialism and strict social organization."
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Truly Great!
- De No to Statism en 07-26-19
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Twelve Years a Slave
- De: Solomon Northup
- Narrado por: Stephen L. Vernon
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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Twelve Years a Slave is an account of actual events that took place in the life of Solomon Northup, during the pre-Civil War era of the 1840s. It follows the trials and tribulations of an educated African American man that was born into freedom and later kidnapped, taken away from his family, and forced into slavery.
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What a great book!!!
- De Andrew Robbin en 09-07-14
De: Solomon Northup
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Oil!
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California's early oil industry. Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist.
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an outstanding book
- De Gregory en 05-18-08
De: Upton Sinclair
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Life Among the Lowly
- De: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." A thrilling and important piece of American literature!
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Excellent Narration
- De Linda en 04-14-16
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The Titan
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: Stuart Langton
- Duración: 19 h y 33 m
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The Titan is the second volume in what the author called his "trilogy of desire," featuring the character of Frank Cowperwood, a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige.
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Not for the faint of heart, but addicting!
- De P. Evans en 09-16-18
De: Theodore Dreiser
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The Armies of the Night
- History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left - hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals - came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s.
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The last tool left to history
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-19
De: Norman Mailer
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- De: Jacques Lusseyran
- Narrado por: Andre Gregory
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters.
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One of the three most important books in my life
- De William R. Stevenson en 12-12-15
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The Fire Next Time
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Jesse L. Martin
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 09-17-15
De: James Baldwin
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The Sea-Wolf
- De: Jack London
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When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself struggling in the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay, he thinks the worst that can happen to him is drowning. After he is rescued by the Ghost and its captain, Wolf Larson, Humphrey discovers that there are fates far worse than death. On Larsen's hell-ship, the dilettante hero is forced to slave as cabin boy and humble seaman. And over the seven months' voyage to the sealing grounds off Siberia, he engages in an epic duel with his ruthlessly Nietzschean skipper.
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A great antagonist ... and too much fawning
- De Zeno en 10-09-20
De: Jack London
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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"To Build a Fire," the best-known of Jack London's many short stories, tells the tale of a solitary traveler on the Yukon Trail accompanied only by his dog as they endure the extreme cold. A classic narrative of a battle for survival against the forces of nature, "To Build a Fire" is London at his best. Also included here are "The Red One," "All Gold Canyon," "A Piece of Steak," "The Love of Life," "Flush of Gold," "The Story of Keesh," and "The Wisdom of the Trail."
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Classic stories, poorly read
- De Lyle C Brown en 12-31-12
De: Jack London
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The Iron Heel
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Hiral Varsani, Bryan Godwin
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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The story proper begins with Avis Everhard, a daughter of a renowned physicist, John Cunningham, and future wife of socialist Ernest Everhard. At first, Avis Everhard does not agree with Ernest's assertion that the whole contemporary social system is based on exploitation of labour. She proceeds to investigate the conditions the workers live in and those terrible conditions make her change her mind and accept Ernest's worldview. Similarly, Bishop Morehouse does not initially believe in the horrors described by Ernest but then becomes convinced of their truth and is confined to a madhouse.
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The Road
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: T. Anthony Quinn
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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In The Road, Jack London embraces the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism through his autobiographical account of his time riding the rails of Canada and the United States. The author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and Sea Wolf, relays the time leading up to turning point in his life - a perfunctory trial and a 30-day imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary for the crime of vagrancy - an experience so degrading that he turned to a career in writing.
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Charming, insightful, mind blowing.
- De Grover M Smith II en 05-27-20
De: Jack London
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The Iron Heel
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Mark Bowen
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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The Iron Heel is a science fiction novel novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. It is considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. In The Iron Heel, Jack London's socialist views are explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
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The Complete Jack London Collection
- Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf, Martin Eden, To Build a Fire, and More
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Jim D Johnston
- Duración: 51 h y 25 m
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With his immense talent for weaving together deep philosophical themes and profound reflections on 19th century society, Jack London was a literary titan who left a lasting impact on American literature. Now, this gripping collection shares some of his greatest works, compiling the sweeping narratives and compelling characters that earned London his place as a writer to be remembered.
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A great writer with great stories!
- De Jeffrey M. en 09-22-24
De: Jack London
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The Sea-Wolf
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself struggling in the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay, he thinks the worst that can happen to him is drowning. After he is rescued by the Ghost and its captain, Wolf Larson, Humphrey discovers that there are fates far worse than death. On Larsen's hell-ship, the dilettante hero is forced to slave as cabin boy and humble seaman. And over the seven months' voyage to the sealing grounds off Siberia, he engages in an epic duel with his ruthlessly Nietzschean skipper.
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A great antagonist ... and too much fawning
- De Zeno en 10-09-20
De: Jack London
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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"To Build a Fire," the best-known of Jack London's many short stories, tells the tale of a solitary traveler on the Yukon Trail accompanied only by his dog as they endure the extreme cold. A classic narrative of a battle for survival against the forces of nature, "To Build a Fire" is London at his best. Also included here are "The Red One," "All Gold Canyon," "A Piece of Steak," "The Love of Life," "Flush of Gold," "The Story of Keesh," and "The Wisdom of the Trail."
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Classic stories, poorly read
- De Lyle C Brown en 12-31-12
De: Jack London
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The Iron Heel
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Hiral Varsani, Bryan Godwin
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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The story proper begins with Avis Everhard, a daughter of a renowned physicist, John Cunningham, and future wife of socialist Ernest Everhard. At first, Avis Everhard does not agree with Ernest's assertion that the whole contemporary social system is based on exploitation of labour. She proceeds to investigate the conditions the workers live in and those terrible conditions make her change her mind and accept Ernest's worldview. Similarly, Bishop Morehouse does not initially believe in the horrors described by Ernest but then becomes convinced of their truth and is confined to a madhouse.
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The Road
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: T. Anthony Quinn
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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In The Road, Jack London embraces the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism through his autobiographical account of his time riding the rails of Canada and the United States. The author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and Sea Wolf, relays the time leading up to turning point in his life - a perfunctory trial and a 30-day imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary for the crime of vagrancy - an experience so degrading that he turned to a career in writing.
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Charming, insightful, mind blowing.
- De Grover M Smith II en 05-27-20
De: Jack London
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The Iron Heel
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Mark Bowen
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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The Iron Heel is a science fiction novel novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. It is considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. In The Iron Heel, Jack London's socialist views are explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
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The Complete Jack London Collection
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With his immense talent for weaving together deep philosophical themes and profound reflections on 19th century society, Jack London was a literary titan who left a lasting impact on American literature. Now, this gripping collection shares some of his greatest works, compiling the sweeping narratives and compelling characters that earned London his place as a writer to be remembered.
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- Bill
- 03-21-24
Dystopian history of class warfare
History of the rise to power and overthrow of the government by the wealthy class. Details bloody battles for the city of Chicago.
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- Robby
- 12-29-23
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Great book, and although this was written over a hundred years ago, Jack London did a great job at making some accurate predictions and his insight into corporate greed, and its power is very accurate.
Political thoughts:
1) I love the Bishop in this book. He goes to prove a point that the Church should advocate more for those in poverty and he's deemed crazy and cast out. There are some parallels to this in modern society. I think of a Christian minister who said that yes, Black Lives do Matter and his congregation turned on him. Or those ministers who are ousted for saying that the LGBTQ community should have equal rights. Those who have money and are funding the church, can often have a large say in the direction it goes
2) Very smart about the trusts. The less businesses there are in an industry, the easier it is for them to get away with price fixing (we are literally seeing this now after Biden took office and we see it with Big Pharma).
3) I found it interesting that the Oligarchy divided the unions by granting some industries more money/less hours and screwing over others. I should note that this was before the joining of the AFL-CIO. In my experience the only unions that do not have the back of other unions are the police and sometimes the fire (think of the latest legislation that the Republicans did in Florida when they gave carveouts to the police/fire unions from losing their union). I believe this is much less likely to occur. Also, the media is much more far reaching to control a message immediately, even before facts are gathered.
4) Parts of this reminded me of the Red Scare/McCarthyism.
5) Anyone who considers themselves a leftist or an activist would enjoy this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-29-23
The Iron Heel
This was fantastic. Story moves really well. Narrator delivers well. Chapter 26 on Chicago’s downfall was treacherous. Brutal book.
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- Charles B.
- 03-30-23
boring polemic on how cool a political movement is
This is a DNF, did not finish, for me.
I enjoyed Jack London adventure novels and usually read them every few years because they are that good. Heck, even a few of his later novels like The Scarlett Plague are decent for that era of writing. But this book, is huge miss in my view.
I made it about 25% of the way before I just bored of the constant soap box efforts of how unjust the world was in London's view. Even more telling was when you read about his later views on socialism of that early 20th century and he turns away due to a number of reasons.
As others have said you get more from this book with the Wikipedia article than the actual reading of it. It is just filled with polemic after polemic about how capitalism is some level of hell and that the way to salvation is via the revolutionary spirit and implementation of socialism. Whatever plot there is about the implementation of this "Iron Heel" and the eventual overthrow by socialists is lost by the paragraph of paragraph of how corrupt and evil society is and that all have blood on their hands.
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