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Martin Eden

(Penguin American Library)

By Andrew Sinclair, Jack London

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| Paperback | 9780140187724

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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 Continue

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. As Paul Berman points out in his Introduction, “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.”

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  • Martin Eden

    La trama e le recensioni di Martin Eden, romanzo di Jack London edito da Einaudi. Il romanzo che riflette l'irrequietezza e il tormento di Jack London. Romanzo largamente autobiografico, Martin Eden riflette l'inquietudine di London, la sua vita stra ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Thu, 25 Nov 2010

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  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE . . . Let me get what I want!

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  • A ghost is the spirit of a man who died and hasn't enough sense to know it.

    "Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others."
    What if life, after working so hard and being misunderstood and laughed at by all you care for, gives you everything you have been dreaming of?
    Martin is a boy. A poor boy struggling to survive. He knows deep down that he's someone differen ... (continue)

    "Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others."
    What if life, after working so hard and being misunderstood and laughed at by all you care for, gives you everything you have been dreaming of?
    Martin is a boy. A poor boy struggling to survive. He knows deep down that he's someone different, better. Due to a fortunate event he is granted admittance to the upper class. Hence he starts to learn. He is positively craving for knowledge and with the help of Ruth, a young upper class woman, he slowly starts to read books, but mostly he starts to think.
    When the love he feels for her grows strong and is returned, it is also met with defiance and rejection by her family. All this will push him to work even harder at his dream of becoming a writer.
    Needless to say it will be a difficult path to follow, but just when the moment arrives and everything seems lost forever, together with Ruth's love for him, things change and he becomes his dream.
    But will this be enough? Will all the sudden success and acceptance even by the people who scorned him at first, be enough to make him truly happy? Or will everything turn into a sickness deep inside him? An illness gnawing at his brain, ruining his "thinking-machine", pushing him into darkness?
    Superb. This book is simply superb.

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    Katia Guido said on Feb 19, 2011 | Add your feedback

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