Martin Eden

By: London, Jack

Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible unless and until he reached their level of wealth and refinement.Over a period of two years, Eden promises Ruth that success will come, but just before it does, Ruth loses her patience and rejects him in a letter, saying, "if only you had settled down ... and attempted to make something of yourself".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HS43KM1
• ISBN13: 9798683135003
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"