Iron Hoof (Jack London Collection)

Author: [American] Jack London, translated by Wu Lao and Lu Jin
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Seven hundred years later, in the fourth century of the "Great Unity World" (which begins when the people of the world finally achieve victory), a future archaeologist discovers the "Evelyn Manuscript"—which is this book. The author of the manuscript is Evelyn Everhard, the noble wife of the leader of the Socialist Party of America, Anarchist Everhard. It narrates the history of the struggle between the working class and the financial class from 1912 to 1932 from the perspective of a woman who rises from a wealthy to a revolutionary, shaping the glorious image of Anarchist Everhard, a revolutionary leader of working-class origin: refined, cruel, horrifying yet thrilling. Through the form of a fantasy novel, the author predicts the inevitable path of the oligarchic regime of the financial class in America (which he calls "Iron Heels") toward fascist rule, highlighting the truth of what is called "American democracy," which still holds significant implications today. "Iron Heels" is one of the greatest fantasy novels in the history of world literature and is one of Jack London's outstanding achievements.