Martin Eden by Jack London

"Martin Eden" by Jack London is a novel published in 1909 about a young working-class sailor who struggles to become a writer. Driven by love for Ruth Morse, a woman from a bourgeois family, Martin Eden pursues intense self-education to rise above his circumstances. As he transforms himself through relentless effort, he becomes increasingly isolated from both his working-class roots and the elite society he sought to join. The novel explores themes of social class, individualism, and the cost of ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author London, Jack, 1876-1916
Title Martin Eden
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eden
Credits David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Working class -- Fiction
Subject Authors -- Fiction
Subject Autobiographical fiction
Subject Bildungsromans
Subject Young men -- Fiction
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 1056
Release Date
Last Update Apr 20, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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