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Book - A Fictional Story, Jack London, Before Adam, 1910s–1920s
... He married twice: Bess Maddern in 1900, and Charmian Kittredge in 1905.
Collins' Clear-Type Press was roughly active through the 1890s–1930s and was not an independent publishing house but a trade imprint of the Glasgow firm William Collins, Sons & Co. one of the great Scottish printing and publishing dynasties of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...He married twice: Bess Maddern in 1900, and Charmian Kittredge in 1905.
Collins' Clear-Type Press was roughly active through the 1890s–1930s and was not an independent publishing house but a trade imprint of the Glasgow firm William Collins, Sons & Co. one of the great Scottish printing and publishing dynasties of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...
Before Adam (1906–07) is one of Jack London's more unusual novels. It's narrated by a modern man who is a "freak of heredity" through recurring, vivid dreams, he relives the memories of a prehistoric ancestor he calls "Big-Tooth." The story was first serialised in Everybody's Magazine before being published as a book, and tells of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. Most of the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Big-Tooth, one of the more primitive "Cave People," set against the more advanced "Fire People" and the animal-like "Tree People." Supporting characters include the hominid's father, a love interest, and Red-Eye, a savage "atavism" who terrorises the Cave People, with a sabre-toothed cat also playing a role.
Hard cover book. Before Adam
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Collins Clear-Type Press
Date: 1910s–1920s
Further Information: A plain volume bound in red cloth, with a stuck-on library classification label ("PAT FIC LON") on the spine and no visible date, edition statement, or printer's imprint on the pages shown the copyright/date page. Gilt decoration and lettering to spine, no illustrated boards, and no dust jacket. fictionBefore Adam (1906–07) is one of Jack London's more unusual novels. It's narrated by a modern man who is a "freak of heredity" through recurring, vivid dreams, he relives the memories of a prehistoric ancestor he calls "Big-Tooth." The story was first serialised in Everybody's Magazine before being published as a book, and tells of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. Most of the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Big-Tooth, one of the more primitive "Cave People," set against the more advanced "Fire People" and the animal-like "Tree People." Supporting characters include the hominid's father, a love interest, and Red-Eye, a savage "atavism" who terrorises the Cave People, with a sabre-toothed cat also playing a role.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, before adam, jack london
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