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Jack London's semiautobiographical critique of individualism that touches on contemporary issues like socialism and mental illness, now two major motion pictures―one directed by Pietro Marcello, the other by Jay Craven

First serialized in 1908, "Martin Eden" is Jack London's classic and tragic tale of its title character and his struggle to become a writer. Martin Eden is an idealistic and self-educated young man who struggles to overcome poverty and a lack of opportunities in a quest to... Read Full Overview

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. "Martin Iden" - roman vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona o mechte i uspehe. Prostoj morjak, v kotorom legko uznat' samogo avtora, prohodit dlinnyj, polnyj lishenij put' k literaturnomu... Read Full Overview

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library,... Read Full Overview

MARTIN EDEN By JACK LONDON - (Fine Print Edition)Publication date 1909

JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill,... Read Full Overview

At the beginning of the 20th century, a rough and uneducated former sailor named Martin Eden falls in love with the young, bourgeois Ruth Morse. He goes through an intense period of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. After... Read Full Overview

Martin Eden is a novel by American author Jack London, about a proletarian young autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by Macmillan in... Read Full Overview

Many consider "Martin Eden" to be Jack London's autobiography; this novel is the story of Martin Eden who dreams to be a writer of literary fame and finally he is successful. It is an attack on individualism and ambition while at the same time it develops London's support of... Read Full Overview

Martin Enden by Jack London.

"Martin Iden" - roman vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona o mechte i uspehe. Prostoj morjak, v kotorom legko uznat' samogo avtora, prohodit dlinnyj, polnyj lishenij put' k literaturnomu bessmertiju... Voleju sluchaja okazavshijsja v svetskom obshhestve, Martin... Read Full Overview

Smitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's... Read Full Overview