by Jack London · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290154601
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«La Peste écarlate» is Jack London's post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, published by J'ai lu in paperback (112 pages, in French).
In 2073, sixty years after the Scarlet Plague devastated the civilized world, an elderly former professor roams San Francisco Bay with his grandchildren, raised in tribes without past or culture. Between hunts and shelters from bears and wolves, he tries to pass on the memory of the former world so it is not completely lost.
Novel originally published in 1912 as The Scarlet Plague; this French edition, with translation by Paul Gruyer and Louis Postif, appeared in 2018.
For readers of science fiction and classic dystopias looking for a short novel by Jack London.
John Griffith London, 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 become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
