Revolution, and other Essays

Author(s): Jack London

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Political Science

Narrators: Michele Fry, Ignare, Jeremy Robertson, KHand, Steve C, Lucretia B., Phil Schempf, Greg Giordano, DJRickyV, Sean Grabosky

Number of Chapters: 14

Length: 06 hours and 07 minutes

Language: English

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active participant in the "socialist revolution", the last essay is an autobiographical piece, and the essays in between are on diverse subjects. A few of the “essays” are actually humorous short fiction stories; others are serious, sometimes angry rants against capitalistic greed and political corruption. All of the pieces are thought-provoking and excellently written, though only loosely intellectual, highly opinionated, and rife with contradiction, as was London himself. -- Summary by Michele Fry