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Before Adam

by Jack London

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First published: 1907
Pages: 103

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A modern man is haunted by vivid dreams of a distant ancestor he calls Big-Tooth, a young hominid living in the Mid-Pleistocene among the tree people, the fierce Fire People, and the beasts of a savage world. London frames the whole book as ancestral memory, the idea that our sleeping minds still carry the experience of the ones who came before us. Through Big-Tooth's eyes we watch early humans hunt, flee, form clumsy bonds, and edge toward becoming something new. Written as Darwin's ideas were reshaping how people imagined their own origins, the novel is a bold and eerie piece of prehistoric fiction.

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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.