Jack London 1 hr 8 min read

Sixty years after the Scarlet Plague swept humanity from the Earth, an old survivor tells his savage grandchildren of the vanished world of cities and knowledge, now gone forever.

This Finnish edition presents Jack London's 1912 'The Scarlet Plague,' a haunting post-apocalyptic tale of civilization's fall. Vivid, elegiac, prophetic. Read it for a powerful early plague-apocalypse story, where a last old man remembers the world we know, told to children who cannot imagine it, in Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 8 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).