Martin Eden

By London, Jack

Book Id: WPLBN0002953291
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File Size: 426.54 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Martin Eden
Author:	London, Jack
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Literature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Martin Eden
Historic Publication Date:	1909
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago London, B. J. (1909). Martin Eden. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by The Macmillan Company in September 1909. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' returning it automatically with a rejection slip. While some readers believe there is some resemblance between them, an important difference between Jack London and Martin Eden is that Martin Eden rejects socialism (attacking it as 'slave morality'), and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, Jack London wrote, One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it.

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Fiction, Literature