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Scarlet plague / Jack London.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- London, Jack, author.
- Series:
- Hesperus Modern Voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--Fiction.
- Plague.
- Plague--Social aspects--Fiction.
- Dystopias--Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Hesperus Press Limited, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An old man 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 their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was?nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague tha
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The Scarlet Plague; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Biographical note; Also by Jack London; SELECTED TITLES FROM HESPERUS PRESS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 9, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781780942056
- 1780942052
- 9781780942032
- 1780942036
- OCLC:
- 854520621
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