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The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel

by Jack London

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appears in Dystopian and Fiction.

A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement....

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appears in Dystopian and Fiction.

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