Before Adam

Description

The tale gives a first observation of human development. Much of the tale is stated through the eyes of the man’s hominid shadow, among the Cave People. In addendum to the Cave People, there are the more forward-thinking Fire People, and the more animal-like Tree People.

Other roles involve the hominid’s father, a love story, and Red-Eye, a violent “atavism” that unendingly terrifies the Cave People. A sabre-cat is also one of the characters in the tale.

John Griffith “Jack” London born John Griffith Chaney was a U.S. author, journalist, and social activist. A forerunner in the earlier expanding world of industrial magazine fiction, he was among the first fiction novelists to acquire international celebrity and an enormous success through only his fiction, as well as science fiction.

A few of his best known novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both situated in the Klondike Gold Rush and the short tales To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He also authored of the South Pacific in tales including The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

Jack joined the extremist literary group The Crowd in San Francisco and a devoted promoter of unionization, socialism, and the rights of laborers. He composed numerous formidable writings about these matters, like his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction depiction The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Jack London’s mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was derived from Thomas Wellman, one of the first Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and settled in the Pacific coast when her father re-wedded after the death of her mother.
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