Download or read book Before Adam written by Jack London and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-04-23T23:46:33Z with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Before Adam, an unnamed narrator describes the life of one of his ancestors, who lived during the transition from ape to human being. Written and published in the early 20th Century, the novel presents ideas that were common for the period, like scientific racism and racial memory, and has elements of eugenic thought. This makes the work outdated both scientifically and socially. Today, the novel is obscured by Jack London’s more successful works, like Call of the Wild and Martin Eden. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.