TY - BOOK AU - London,Jack TI - Martin Eden AV - PS PY - 1997/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Working class -- Fiction KW - Authors -- Fiction KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eden; Release date is 1997-09-01; David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1056 ER -