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When at last they recognize him, the triumph proves emptier than the striving.
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A young sailor off the Oakland waterfront, rough-spoken and half-schooled, is invited one evening into a book-lined parlor of the cultured middle class, and falls at once for Ruth Morse, and for the whole bright world of ideas she seems to embody. Determined to make himself worthy of her, Martin Eden teaches himself to write, driving mind and body to the breaking point through years of poverty and rejection, certain that beauty and truth must one day be recognized.
First published in 1909, Martin Eden is London's most personal novel: a searing portrait of the self-made artist, and a study of ambition, class, love, and disillusion that burns with the author's own hunger and hard-won craft.
This Northlume Classic Library edition presents the complete 1909 text, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus, with an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Jack London (1876–1916)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 376 pages