Martin Eden (1909) NOVEL By: Jack London (World's Classics) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532866517)

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. Plot summary 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 4] 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.

Author: Jack London
ISBN-10: 1532866518
ISBN-13: 9781532866517
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.46d