Jack London 2 hr 5 min read

A modern man is haunted by ancestral dreams, vivid memories of his own remote forebear, a half-ape boy living in the dawn of humankind.

Jack London's 1906 novel uses the conceit of racial memory to plunge its narrator into the Pleistocene life of 'Big-Tooth,' dramatizing early human evolution through inherited nightmare. Vivid, influential prehistoric fiction from a literary giant, drawing on Darwin and the science of its day. Read it for a gripping evolutionary romance that makes our deep past feel like a remembered dream.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 5 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).