Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", The Iron Heel chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most 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. The book is unusual among London's writings (and in the literature of the time in general) in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. Much of the narrative is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, including events in San Francisco and Sonoma County.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	November 25, 2016
ISBN13	9781540620415
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	246
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 13 mm · 335 g
Language	English

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