Big things are happening secretly all around, says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely and trenchant anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, The Radical Jack London establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades: uncollected essays and newspaper articles about socialism, race, class, terrorism, empire, colonialism, and political repression in the United States. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century. Raskin's comments on the major works-Martin Eden, The Road, and The Iron Heel-provide a substantive reinterpretation of one of America's foremost writers and social critics. In The Radical Jack London, readers will find the perfect introduction to an author who mastered the art of the polemical essay, fathered the road novel, invented prison literature and dystopian fiction, and in his short life altered the course of American literature.

Big things are happening secretly all around, says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, The Radical Jack London establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century.