The Scarlet Plague – Audiobook Online

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London is a dystopian novel set in the year 2073, sixty years after a devastating pandemic has wiped out most of humanity. The story follows an old man named James Howard Smith, who was once a professor of English literature before the outbreak, as he recounts the events leading up to and following the pandemic to his grandchildren. The disease was called the Scarlet Plague and it spread rapidly, killing millions of people and reducing society to a primitive state. The surviving humans formed small, isolated tribes and had to relearn basic survival skills. The story ends with the realization that the disease had left behind a new race of people who were immune to the Scarlet Plague, offering a glimmer of hope for the future.

• The Scarlet Plague

• By: Jack London
• Narrated by: Drew Ariana

Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley literature professor recounts the grisly chain of events that led to his current lowly state – a terrible pandemic that has killed nearly every living soul. on the planet in just a few days. Modern civilization falters and crumbles, and a new race of barbarians – the brutalized laborers of the Western world – take power everywhere. Over a period of several decades, all learning was lost. Unlike Gilligan’s Island professor, the narrator is the least useful member of a thriving tribe, their younger generation (who boast names like Hoo-Hoo and Har- Lip) are mostly descendants of the tribe’s brutal founder. He was known only by his previous job title, so the tribe’s name was: Chauffeur.

Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague is a gripping tale of a post-apocalyptic tale some sixty years after a plague (in 2013 – about 100 years in the future since publication) has ravaged the planet and turned humans into small groups of hunters/gatherers. The story is told by an elderly grandfather who can remember life before the plague that he tries to describe to young boys who simply cannot believe nor understand what he is saying. tell.

Realizing that this was a pre-antibiotic era as well as before the influenza pandemic of 1918, all the more appealing to consider for a person of that era to imagine with hope resting on the shoulders of doctors and nurses. scientists to find an unprecedented cure. There is a detailed description of the disease process as well as the social response.

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