Book reviews: Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel 13 Articles

by Michael Mccormick

This book, The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel is an adventure back into prehistoric time. Reading this story, I found myself traveling in time back some 35,000 years. The main character Ayla is introduced as a f...read more

by Linda St.Cyr

Clan of the Cave Bear is the first book in the Earth's Children Series written by Jean M. Auel. The book is marketed as historical fiction and is based on the theory of evolution. In the story we start out on a journey w...read more

by Ginger Voight

In 1977 writer Jean M. Auel began research for her first book, an evocative historical fiction novel which dramatically intersects the lives Neanderthals and Cro-magnon humans in prehistoric Europe. "Clan of the Cave ...read more

by Phil P

If you enjoy stories of heroism, desperation and survival, then The Clan of the Cave Bear is for you. Natural history can often be difficult to interpret due to the immense cultural differences and the amounts of facts. Ho...read more

by Jana Ash

When I found out that my assignment for my history course was to read this book - The Clan of the Cave Bear, By Jean M. Auel - I can't even relay to you the sense of dread I had. But now I can honestly say that this book ...read more

by Bridget N. Watts

The Clan of the Cave Bear is the classic historical fiction novel by Jean Auel. It is the first book in the Earth's Children series, which consists of a total of five books about a brief period in history, some 35,000 year...read more

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by Jerry Curtis

Please note: This article contains plot disclosures that might spoil the first-time reader's enjoyment of the novel. Clan of the Cave Bear is a wonderful tale of survival. It begins with an earthquake that kills the Cro...read more

by Jenessa Gayheart

This fictional history book contains so much reality and possibility, that I half expect archaeologists to someday find Ayla buried somewhere in Europe, to find the crumpled and mangled remains of Creb in his cave. This i...read more

by Mary Luzinski

The Clan of the Cave Bear is one of the most riveting historical fictional novels I've ever read. From the first word of the first chapter to the last word on the last page, this book grasps and holds the reader's attenti...read more

by Colette Georgii

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel: Book Review The Clan of the Cave Bear is about Ayla, who at the age of five is abandoned to her own plight due to an earthquake that separated her from her family. She is all alone i...read more

by Johnette Loefgren

As in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies",Jean Auel(pronounced "owl") writes from the viewpoint that man is essentially good and society is inherently evil. In "Clan of the Cave Bear",good is represented by Ayla and the ...read more

by Noleen Wyatt-Jones

The Clan of the Cave Bear is the first in the Earth's Children series of books by Jean M.Auel, and is set at a time long ago in earth's history when two different races shared the earth one more advanced than the other. A...read more

by Earl Demott

Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear does for Palentology what John Fowles did for Victorian sentimentality in The French Lieutenant's Woman. Though a great deal of artistic license is taken in the stories themselves,...read more