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Martin Eden

Martin Eden

London, Jack

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Classic Fiction

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ISBN10: 1548576603
ISBN13: 9781548576608
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 6 2017
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. Eden represents writers' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a cunning arrangement of cogs immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip. The central theme of Eden's developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of the Künstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist. Eden differs from London in that Eden rejects socialism, attacking it as slave morality, and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, 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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