The Iron Heel is a 1908 dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, combining political fiction with science fiction elements. It depicts the rise of a socialist labor movement in the United States and the brutal oligarchic dictatorship that conservative interests establish to crush it. The novel is framed as a manuscript written by the narrator, Avis Everhard, discovered centuries later and annotated by a future historian, and follows her transformation from a sheltered skeptic into a committed revolutionary as she witnesses the oligarchy consolidate power through a favored labor caste and private armies. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Iron Heel is a dystopian and political novel in the form of science fiction by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
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The Iron Heel is a dystopian and political novel in the form of science fiction by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
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Genre: Dystopian novel, political novel
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Author: Jack London
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