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  2. The Scarlet Plague - Wikipedia

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    The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.

  3. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Scarlet Plague: Jack London: Sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic named the Red Death has depopulated the planet, James Howard Smith tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons Novel 1912 Sun The Night Land: William Hope Hodgson

  4. The Unparalleled Invasion - Wikipedia

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    The United States enlists the help of other Western powers and amasses an invasion force on China's borders. America then launches a biological warfare campaign against China, resulting in the total destruction of China's population, with the few survivors of the plague being killed out of hand by European and American troops. Some German ...

  5. Top 20 most reviewed books of all time from Amazon - AOL

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    From cult classics such as Harry Potter to New York Times Best Sellers, these 20 reads have more customer reviews than any other books on Amazon! Shop most reviewed Amazon books.

  6. Review: Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an ... - AOL

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    Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, "Nights of Plague," depicts a Mediterranean island throwing off the yoke of empire during a plague year.

  7. A Plague Tale: Requiem review — Gripping, overwhelming dread

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    A Plague Tale: Requiem is bigger, better and all the more beautifully haunting — everything a sequel should be. A Plague Tale: Requiem review — Gripping, overwhelming dread Skip to main content

  8. Disease in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Jack London's 1912 The Scarlet Plague was reprinted in the February 1949 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Diseases, especially if infectious, have long been popular themes and plot devices in fiction. [1] [7] Daniel Defoe's pioneering 1722 A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictional diary of a man's life during the plague year of 1665 in ...

  9. The Plague (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Narrator: the narrator presents himself at the outset of the book as witness to the events and privy to documents, but does not identify himself until the ending of the novel. The Prefect : The Prefect believes at first that the talk of plague is a false alarm, but on the advice of his medical association, he authorizes limited measures to ...