The Iron Heel (Annotated‪)‬

The Iron Heel is a dystopian book by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it 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.

This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  This book has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, plot, analysis, influences, translation, biographical and bibliographical information.