Iron heel. People of the abyss

The Iron Heel is a very unusual and fascinating novel -antiotopia dedicated to the neighbor (at the time of publication in 1908) to the future USA and planet Earth as a whole. Like no other of the masters of the anti -utopian (and utopian) genre, London failed to exactly predict the future. However, much of what he wrote in the novel came true - and giant corporations that absorb small and medium -sized businesses, and the very idea of ​​"corporate culture", and world wars with Germany, and even ... 1917 as the date of a powerful social explosion .
"People of the abyss" - a collection of essays about the tragic life of London poor people, for the sake of writing which the author, with his inherent noble adventurism, changed into the sailor retired from the ship and lived among his future characters, sharing poverty and non -resident with them. A whole gallery of the inhabitants of this hell on earth - descended and unhappy or strong, purposeful and ready to fight for existence is being held before the reader