London, Jack,  1876-1916 <br/><br/>
Martin Eden 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eden  Release date is 1997-09-01 
<br/><br/>David Price  David Price 
<br/><br/> "Martin Eden" by Jack London is a novel published in 1909 about a young working-class sailor who struggles to become a writer. Driven by love for Ruth Morse, a woman from a bourgeois family, Martin Eden pursues intense self-education to rise above his circumstances. As he transforms himself through relentless effort, he becomes increasingly isolated from both his working-class roots and the elite society he sought to join. The novel explores themes of social class, individualism, and the cost of ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Working class -- Fiction Authors -- Fiction Autobiographical fiction Bildungsromans Young men -- Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction 
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