Martin Eden

by Jack London

Overview

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. (Wikipedia)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962727253
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	11/14/2018
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	816 KB

About the Author

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. (Wikipedia)

Reading Group Guide

Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created. As Paul Berman points out in his Introduction, “In Martin, [London] created one of the great twisted heroes of American literature . . . a hero doomed from the outset because his own passions are bigger and more complicated than any man could bear.”

Editorial Reviews

One of Jack London’s greatest works.” —Upton Sinclair

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