Martin Eden

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Martin Eden was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. 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. 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. Over a period of two years, Eden promises Ruth that success will come, but just before it does, Ruth loses her patience and rejects him in a letter, saying, "if only you had settled down ... and attempted to make something of yourself". Martin Eden: by the time Eden attains the favour of the publishers and the bourgeoisie who had shunned him, he has already developed a grudge against them and become jaded by toil and unrequited love. Instead of enjoying his success, he retreats into a quiet indifference, interrupted only to rail mentally against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working-class friends and family. He felt that people did not value him for himself or for his work but only for his fame. Martin Eden ends with Eden's committing suicide by drowning, which contributed to what researcher Clarice Stasz calls the "biographical myth" that Jack London's own death was a suicide. Martin Eden is a novel highly recommended to read. "martin eden" "jack london martin eden" "martin eden jack london" "martin eden pdf" "martin eden film" "jack london martin eden pdf" "martin eden jack london pdf" "martin eden summary" "martin eden movie" "martin eden quotes" "martin eden analysis" "martin eden by jack london" "martin eden epub" "martin eden london" "martin eden sparknotes" "martin eden audiobook" "martin eden read online" "the adventures of martin eden" "jack london martin eden summary" "martin eden book" "martin eden jack london summary"