The Scarlet Plague Annotated


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.




The Scarlet Plague Annotated


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today




The Scarlet Plague


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In 1912, Jack London written a book 'The Scarlet Plague'. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease. Victims face turned scarlet and their lower side become numb. Within 30 minutes, of first seeing symptoms, victims usually died. There was no cure, doctors and scientists, who were trying to do so were also get infected. The Scarlet Plague is an amazing story, showing us the same scenario as pandemic Covid-19 shown us.




The Scarlet Plague


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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.Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state -- a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians -- the western world's brutalized workers -- assumed power everywhere.




The Scarlet Plague-Original Edition(Annotated)


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today




The Scarlet Plague (Annotated Edition)


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today




The Scarlet Plague


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Smith is one of the survivors of the era before the scarlet plague hit and is still left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip. His grandsons are young and live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Their intellect is limited, as are their language abilities. Edwin asks Smith, whom they call "Granser", to tell them of the disease alternately referred to as scarlet plague, scarlet death, or red death.




The Scarlet Plague


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.




Scarlet Plague (Annotated and Illustrated)


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Jack London's post-apocalyptic vision takes place in 2072, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith, one of the few left alive San Francisco area, attempts to impart the fee of understanding to his grandsons and as his time on Earth grows ever shorter. This version of the book is annotated and illustrated.




Jack London the Scarlet Plague(Annotated Edition)


Book Description

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is todayThe Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is todayThe Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today