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The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic , especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.
- Jack London
- 1912
3.74. 11,588 ratings1,364 reviews. 'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and ...
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Jun 29, 2007 · The boy with the goats came running to join in the fun. “Set ’em to cool, Edwin, set ’em to cool,” the old man besought, in the midst of his grief, making no attempt to wipe away the tears that still flowed from his eyes. “And cool a crab, Edwin, too. You know your grandsire likes crabs.”.
Jun 29, 2007 · The Scarlet Plague Credits: David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Science fiction Subject: End of the world -- Fiction Subject: Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction Subject: Epidemics -- Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. 21970: Release Date: Jun 29, 2007: Most ...
- London, Jack, 1876-1916
- Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962
- David Widger
- The Scarlet Plague
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Jun 17, 2019 · Bibliographic information. Originally published in “London Magazine” in 1912, “The Scarlet Plague” is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Jack London. The year is 2073 and its sixty years after the 'Red Death' decimated the population of the earth. A survivor called James Smith lives in the San Francisco area, travelling around ...
Oct 2, 2010 · The Scarlet Plague is a futuristic novel by Jack London, set in San Francisco after an epidemic, the Red Death, has ravaged the planet. The main character, James Howard Smith, sees the diminished society and attempts to impart his knowledge to his grandsons, in order that they may restart a civilization. This book is an early post-apocalyptic ...
- Jack London
The Scarlet Plague is a novel, and it has to do with an illness, the scarlet plague, that comes to the country. People die out all over the world, all over the United States, except for small isolated colonies that are left. Advanced civilization collapses, the buildings in New York are empty, and so on. Here is a boy who is suddenly growing up ...
