Jack LondonVerified

London's semi-autobiographical novel follows a working-class sailor's brutal ascent through literature and self-education, exposing the gap between ambition and society's willingness to grant it. The book burns with an underdog's rage and the seductive danger of ideology.

A dystopian novel from 1908 set in a future America, where a growing socialist movement leads to an oligarchic dictatorship. It is presented as a manuscript found centuries later, in which Avis Everhard describes her husband Ernest's struggle against the Iron Heel.