"A Curious Fragment"

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Title"A Curious Fragment"
Year for Search1908
AuthorsLondon, Jack [John Griffith](1876-1916)
Secondary TitleTown Topics
Pagination45-47
Date PublishedDecember 10, 1908
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(1876-1916)
Full Text

1908 London, Jack [John Griffith] (1876-1916). “A Curious Fragment.” Town Topics (New York) (December 10, 1908): 45-47. Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86. LLL, MoU-St, O, PSt

Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.