The New Eden

In the 19th century, a wealthy man arranges a scientific experiment involving two human beings—one male, one female—placed in their own modern-day Garden of Eden.  The purpose of the experiment is to watch their evolution... or something.  “Adam” is on one tropical island, “Eve” on another, and they have no notion that any other humans exist anywhere in the universe.  By chance Adam sees the smoke from Eve’s cooking fire and manages to travel to her island and meet her, giving the reader much thoughtful insight into what it must have been like for the original Adam and Eve.

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (11 May 1866–10 March 1944), who also published under the pen name Weatherby Chesney, was an English novelist best remembered today as the author of The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, a science fiction classic.

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