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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
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- London, Jack, 1876-1916
- Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962
- David Widger
- The Scarlet Plague
Grandpa returns to the past when the Scarlet Plague swept the planet destroying billions of people and bringing modern civilisation to its knees. He recounts the gruesome deterioration of the many as the few with some kind of immunity struggled to survive.
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Jun 29, 2007 · A dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic future where a new plague has wiped out most of humanity. An old man and a boy travel along a former railroad embankment, encountering bears, rabbits, and a mysterious woman named Vesta.
Jun 17, 2019 · 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...
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.
Why the plague germs spared him I can never understand. It would seem, in spite of our old metaphysical notions about absolute justice, that there is no justice in the universe. Why did he live?—...
