aîné J.-H. Rosny 3 hr 41 min read

When their sacred fire is lost, a tribe's fate hangs on the young warrior Naoh, who must journey through a savage prehistoric world to win flame back from rival hordes.

Rosny aîné's 1911 'The Quest for Fire' is a vivid, gripping classic of prehistoric fiction, later a famous film. Dramatic, atmospheric, foundational. Read it for the great primeval adventure of early humanity's struggle to master fire, in French.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 41 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).