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Jack London
Audio Cassette | Pages: 98 pages Rating: 3.61 | 4427 Users | 537 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Scarlet Plague |
| Author | : | Jack London |
| Book Format | : | Audio Cassette |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 98 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1986 by Dercum Pr Audio (first published 1912) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Classics. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Dystopia |
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'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was—nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end. What future lies in store for the remnants of mankind can only be surmised—their ignorance, barbarity, and ruthlessness the only hopes they have?'Declare Books Concering The Scarlet Plague
| Original Title: | The Scarlet Plague |
| ISBN: | 1556560370 (ISBN13: 9781556560378) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | James Howard Smith |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California,2073(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.61 From 4427 Users | 537 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books The Scarlet Plague
I really loved this one! It was short and sweet. Definitely check this one out!It was slightly jarring to read this in 2013, the year the Scarlet Plague is supposed to wipe out mankind. It reminded me of reading The Stand a few years ago when Swine Flu was all the rage.The storytelling is fairly descriptive and provides an interesting take on post-apocalyptic society. It portrays the resulting society as far more primitive than most other stories in the genre. It was interesting to see London's guesses at the technology existing in 2013. Some of the things he described
Well, this was certainly a book. It's more interesting as a footnote about Jack London than a story in its own right--did you know that Jack London wrote a post-apocalyptic novel as well as all those damn dog books? Fascinating, huh? No, don't bother reading it, just know that he wrote it.The premise is interesting, and there's a mild tang of zeerust to it, since it's a writer envisioning in 1915 the downfall of humanity in 2013. (We survived the Scarlet Plague, everybody! Pat yourselves on the
If I had read this at an earlier time, I would have found it merely preachy and heavy-handed and not particularly well-crafted; more of a secular tract about the evils of progress than anything else. Reading it now, however--well, I'm fucking terrified.
By the time Jack London released his post-apocalyptic novel "The Scarlet Plague" in 1912, the author was 36 years old--just four years shy of his premature passing in 1916--and yet had already managed to cram in more incident and adventure into those three dozen years than most folks do in their lifetime. Since his birth in San Francisco in 1876, he had worked on a sealing schooner, done a stint as an oyster pirate, participated in the Klondike Gold Rush (in 1897), played the part of a war
The Scarlet Plague, Sunlanders, Master of Mystry, Jack LondonThe Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Smith is one of the survivors of the era before the scarlet plague hit and is still left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and
The scarlet plague was a very interesting, creative book. It told the tale of a plague that killed most of the population in 2012, and a survivor (a few decades after), educating his grandsons and telling them about life before and during the plague. It was enjoyable and intruiging to to hear and see our world in a new light, and a new decade. I was surprised to see the grandsons not do basic things like count above ten, or know what restaraunts are, but after thinking about it, I realised it
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