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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

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

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

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

"Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. He forgot himself and stared at her with hungry eyes. Here was something to live for, to win to, to fight for-ay, and die for. The books were true. There were... 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

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 Eden is a work by Jack London now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.

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

" Jack London was] a great gobbler-up of the world, physically and intellectually, the kind of writer who went to a place and wrote his dreams into it, the kind of writer who found an Idea and spun his psyche around it."--E.L. Doctorow

Martin Eden (1909) is a... Read Full Overview

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