| Before Adam Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843910977 ISBN-13: 9781843910978 Publisher: Hesperus Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: "Before Adam" is Jack London's fictional tour de force. In it, he brilliantly recreates the dawn of humanity, depicting the prehistoric world as a place of dark conflict where only the fittest will survive. Tormented by a succession of terrifying dreams, the narrator is faced with the strange truth that his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, his mid-Pleistocene ancestor. Through these dream memories, he witnesses Big-Tooth's life as one of the "Folk" race--a life without developed language, social structure, or fire. He sees, too, the Folk's fierce battles for survival against the more advanced Fire People and the primitive Tree People. As he struggles to make sense of Big-Tooth's world, he begins questioning the very notion of eugenics, making "Before Adam" one of the most pertinent works of its time. American writer Jack London is the author of some of the finest naturalistic adventure stories of the 20th century, most memorably "The Call of the Wild." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Hesperus Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5" W x 7.72" (0.34 lbs) 124 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A young man in modern America is terrorised by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. |