The Iron Heel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Iron Heel, credited to Jack London, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Iron Heel, by Jack London. Read by Matt Soar. The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. It chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. The book is uncommon among London's writings (and in the literature of the time in general) in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Iron Heel
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 8:17:39

Catalogue topics

• jack london
• iron heel
• science fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Foreword — 8:39
2. 01 - My Eagle — 28:52
3. 02 - Challenges — 27:41
4. 03 - Jackson's Arm — 21:05
5. 04 - Slaves of the Machine — 16:26
6. 05 - The Philomaths — 42:29
7. 06 - Adumbrations — 15:04
8. 07 - The Bishop's Vision — 12:46
9. 08 - The Machine Breakers — 29:13
10. 09 - The Mathematics of a Dream — 32:54
11. 10 - The Vortex — 18:11
12. 11 - The Great Adventure — 15:36
13. 12 - The Bishop — 20:15
14. 13 - The General Strike — 18:24
15. 14 - The Beginning of the End — 16:26
16. 15 - Last Days — 11:03
17. 16 - The End — 19:38
18. 17 - The Scarlet Livery — 17:55
19. 18 - In the Shadow of Sonoma — 16:47
20. 19 - Transformation — 16:55
21. 20 - A Lost Oligarch — 14:43
22. 21 - The Roaring Abysmal Beast — 12:43
23. 22 - The Chicago Commune — 22:59
24. 23 - The People of the Abyss — 24:50

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