An old caveman explains to his grandsons how the tribe learned to cooperate, and how it was robbed. In other stories a San Francisco professor lives a double life as a union man, a general strike starves the city’s rich, and a lone genius terrorises the world with an invention. The Unparalleled Invasion imagines a germ war against China and carries the ugly Yellow Peril fears of 1910.
A window on London’s socialism, written with the force of his adventure fiction and best read with its age in mind. Download the free EPUB.