Volume 490 pages
1909 year
Martin Eden
About the book
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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. "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."
SYNOPSIS
The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created.
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, and impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended
So optimictic at the beginning and so pessimistic at the end. Anyway, I spend some incredible evenings accompanied by the book
Its a good classic book. I like it, because the story of Martin is very close to real life. Its also can help to improve English, thats greate
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
He has no conscience. That alone will make him great.
In truth, they were children together, so far as love was concerned, and they were as naive and immature in the expression of their love as a pair of children, and this despite the fact that she was crammed with a university education and that his head was full of scientific philosophy and the hard facts of life.
This must be love, she thought, in the one rational moment that was vouchsafed her. If it was not love, it was too shameful.
He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.
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