''Revolution and Other Essays'' is a collection of 13

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

essays and stories published in 1910 by

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. The collection includes fictional stories and essays. Most, but not all, of its contents concern

socialism Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

and injustice.

"Revolution", the first essay in the book, extols Jack London's renunciation of

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in favor of Socialism. Contents include: "Revolution", "The Somnambulists", "The Dignity of Dollars", "Goliah", "The Golden Poppy", "The Shrinkage of the Planet", "The House Beautiful", "The Gold Hunters of the North", "Fomá Gordyéeff", "These Bones Shall Rise Again", "The Other Animals", "The Yellow Peril", and "What Life Means to Me". It was reprinted in 1912 as part of the Macmillan Standard Library series. "Goliah" was originally published in 1908 in

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and was also published by Thorp Springs Press in 1974. It depicts a society transformed.

Reviews

The book was reviewed overall favorably by the ''

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'' in 1910, though the reviewer was less pleased with the namesake essay.

References

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