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The year is 2073. An uncontrollable disease, the Scarlet Plague, has wiped out most of the world's people six decades earlier. The cities are destroyed. An old man, James Howard Smith, wanders the depopulated land with his three grandsons. They are hunter-gatherers now, but... Read Full Overview

Originally published in "London Magazine" in 1912, "The Scarlet Plague" is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Jack London. The year is 2073 and its sixty years after the 'Red Death' decimated the population of the earth. A survivor called James Smith lives in the San... Read Full Overview

The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's... Read Full Overview

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

Once the red rash appears, it is too late. The victims die within hours, their rapidly decomposing bodies spreading the disease in the dust. Art, science, and learning die with them while the few survivors degenerate into feral clans. This story takes place in 2073, sixty years... Read Full Overview

Jack London's plague novel, in which the world's population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias -- from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four to the movies Road Warrior and Idiocracy... Read Full Overview

"London's style is typically lush but his viewpoint is skeptical and dystopian...the story reminds us of the dangers we still court with our careless ways."-The Times

"Jack London saw this coming. Why didn't we?...To revisit The Scarlet Plague during the COVID-19 crisis... Read Full Overview

Previ Jack London en 1910 lo que vivir a el mundo en 2020? Una fascinante novela corta que cada d a adquiere m s visos de realidad...Abu, un anciano sobreviviente de la peste de 2013, narra su historia a sus nietos... muchachos que habitan un mundo totalmente cambiado por los... Read Full Overview

"London's style is typically lush but his viewpoint is skeptical and dystopian . . . [the] story reminds us of the dangers we still court with our careless ways." --The Times In the year 2072 an old man scrambles along overgrown railway tracks. A savage boy helps him along. Over... Read Full Overview

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

An early science-fiction story set in 2073, sixty years after a devastating plague wipes out most of the planet's population. One of the few survivors recounts the story of life... Read Full Overview

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Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella,... Read Full Overview

Do you want to read The Scarlet Palague? If so then keep reading...

Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella,... Read Full Overview

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

"The Scarlet Plague" from Jack London. American novelist and noted socialist (1876-1916).