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Posted by Fiction Lover on January 31, 1999 at 15:59:13:
The Iron Heel
In 1907 a remarkable novel was published, blending the disparate elements of love and warfare into one intriguing story.
The Iron Heel was authored by Jack London. In the fashion of a personal journal, the author tells the tale of Avis Cunningham, beginning in her upper-class home in Berkeley California.
Through young Avis' meetings with, and betrothal to, working-class revolutionary Ernest Everhard, her blinders are quite suddenly removed. Avis comes to the realization that her baronial lifestyle was purchased at the expense of others. Rudely awakened, Avis joins her husband and together they begin a quest to disect the socio-political entity known as America with the intent to surgically remove all the inherent injustices contained therein.
This book is forbidden fruit, by law, in most of the nations of the world. The ban on The Iron Heel was declared in Nazi Germany before the ink had dried on the repressive "anti-pornography" laws instituted by Adof Hitler. That ban has never been rescinded. Besides the states of the former Soviet Union, China, Indonesia and Korea (both North and South), Canada, Italy and Portugal also forbid the posession of this novel.
As a time-capsule, this book elucidates the concerns of the working-class in nineteenth century America; concerns that have never been fully expunged. It is as chilling as it is prophetic, and remains as relevant today as ever it was.
Any reader with the courage to begin reading this story will dare not pause until the last word has been absorbed.
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