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• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Joy Cagil -- Amazingly Imaginative, Yet So Believable : Anything I read by Jack London I liked a lot and this novel was no exception although it wasn’t about sea adventures or wild dogs as is usually expected of him. I found Before Adam to be original, beautifully written and highly imaginative, which I think the author must have been inspired by Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species published in 1859 as this book was first serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. I read its Kindle version. ( Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from LastRanger -- In The Forest Primeval--- : Suppose you were having dreams of a previous life. Not just from someone who lived a generation or two ago, but an ancestor that lived thousands of years ago and who was not human. Written by Jack London in the early days of the 20th century, Before Adam was first published 1907 (serialized) in Everybody's Magazine then later, in book form, as a novel. The hero of the story is a modern day man with two personae; in the wake-a-day world the modern man, in the sleeping dream-world a kind of semi-arboreal proto-hominid that lived in the Mid- Pleistocene. The modern man is the narrator of the story and he explains how he pieced it all together from fragmented dreams over the corse of his lifetime. The story is one of hardship, danger, love and hate. It has all the elements that make up our lives but acted out in a very different world. The author makes it all come to life with his brutal, in your face, narrative. The characters are: Big Tooth, the dream-world persona, Swift One, his love interest and Lop Ear, his friend. They all live in caves with a band of other hominids, who call themselves the Folk. The band's leader is called Red Eye, an "Atavism", who rules the Folk with an iron-fisted brutality and seems to desire Swift One and hates Big Tooth with a passion. There are other, more primitive, kinds of hominids living in the surrounding woodlands. Some, called the Tree People, are more arboreal than the Folk and may be Red Eye's original people. As a general rule the Tree People are no threat to the Folk but the Fire People definitely are, and being a more advanced kind of human they often hunt the Folk with bows and arrows and they have also learned to use fire. These, then, are the players in this prehistoric drama. They face, not only threats from each other but dangers from animals and the environment. Part of the story deals with a kind of cultural shock that the modern-day persona must deal with. Why is he different? Who can he trust, what is real and what is dream? The first time I read this book, as a child, I was totally blown away by it's unique concept. I found my self drawn back to it time and again over the years and with each rereading I discovered a kind of reawakening of all my original feelings. London was one of a rare breed of writer that not only wrote about adventure but lived it as well. People like Zane Gray and Teddy Roosevelt (non-fiction), as well as London, spent time in the out-of-doors and often faced danger and hardship in their pursuit of the "vigorous life". In this book Jack London again proves himself as one of the best writers of action-adventure stories. As always, London's stories are infused with his fatalistic out look on life: man, standing alone, against a vast, uncaring universe. This is, of course, a work of fiction and not a paper meant for publication in a science journal so don't look for 21st century scientific accuracy. In 1907 not many people knew about genetic theory or human evolution so just set back and enjoy the action. If you're careful, and lucky, you just might make it through the night. This 2014 Kindle edition includes numerous sketches and paintings by Charles Livingston Bull that add real depth and clarity to the story. I had no technical or formatting problems with this edition but apparently Amazon no longer offers it. Too bad. ( Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Zachary S. PierceTop Contributor: Running -- great book : The book arrived quickly and in good condition. ( Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2014 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from A. Unsworth -- would you adam n eve it? : Decent little book, a forshadowing of his later work 'The Jacket'/'The Star Rover' which returns to the theme of past lives glimpsed through dream-states, also recommended. In terms of evolution, the science is not quite right but you can forgive london that, writing as he was in 1907. Story-wise, we follow a proto-human living in his tribe, battling creatues either slightly more civilised than his tribe, or slightly less civilised. We follow his upbringing, love life, and persecution at the hands of those who would do him harm, and throughout the story London manages to achieve a real sense that the narrator is something not quite human, not quite chimp. Short & worthwhile. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2012 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from Amanda Craig -- fascinating, visionary story : I'm so pleased to see this is still available, because though less well-known than White Fang and The Call of the Wild it's still a wonderful story. The narrator is haunted by dreams of a prehistoric past, in which he must survive a mortal enemy and other tribes, both more and less advanced than he is. London is a consummate story-teller, who never wastes a word, and at his best when describng savage emotions. I read this as a twelve-year-old and now want to get it for my own son of the same age.... ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2007 )

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