作者：Jack London
分类：外国现当代
字数：39340字
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图书简介：A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world.杰克·伦敦：美国20世纪著名现实主义作家。他出身于美国旧金山的一个破产农民家庭。从1900年起，他连续发表和出版了许多小说，讲述美国下层人民的生活故事，揭露资本主义社会的罪恶。他的作品大都带有浓厚的社会主义和个人主义色彩，因此有人认为他是宣扬社会主义的作家，也有人认为他是表现个人主义和民众哲学的自然主义作家。他的作品在全世界都广为流传，是最受中国读者欢迎的外国作家之一。他一生著述颇丰，留下了19部长篇小说、150多篇短篇小说以及大量文学报告集、散文集和论文，最著名的有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《白牙》、《热爱生命》、《海狼》、《铁蹄》等小说。他是世界文学史上最早的商业作家之一，因此被誉为商业作家的先锋。