Download or read book The Scarlet Plague by Jack London Illustrated (Penguin Classics) written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been prescient of the Coronavirus outbreak, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.