The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo
"The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man" by Stanley Waterloo is a novel written in 1897. It follows Ab, a Stone Age boy, as he navigates the perils of prehistoric life—from hunting mammoths and capturing rhinoceroses to competing for the affection of Lightfoot, a young woman whose hand he wins through brutal conflict. As Ab matures, he faces sabre-tooth tigers, tribal warfare, and the weight of
past violence, while pioneering innovations that will shape human civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
For an overview of the different reading options, see our Reading Guide
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.html.images | 421 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.epub3.images | 1.3 MB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.epub.images | 1.3 MB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.epub.noimages | 230 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.kf8.images | 1.8 MB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.kindle.images | 1.8 MB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8644.txt.utf-8 | 406 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8644/pg8644-h.zip | 1.3 MB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
About this eBook
| Author | Waterloo, Stanley, 1846-1913 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Ab |
| Credits |
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, Andy Schmitt, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Prehistoric peoples -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 8644 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 4, 2014 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 585 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |