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The Scarlet Plague
- 77 pages · about 1 hour
- First published 1912
- 71 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912.
Good for readers who want: science fiction, a classic, the end of the world, and a short read.
- Science fiction
- Classics
- Dystopian fiction
- Plague
- End of the world
- Regression (Civilization)
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Read it on the Internet Archive3 About Jack London
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Jack London
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