Martin Eden

Martin Eden Book Description: The life of Martin Eden, a sailor living in Oakland in the early twentieth century, changes when a young man he saved from trouble invites him to his home. The speeches and behaviors of this bourgeois family; Their interest in art, literature, music and culture greatly affects them. Martini, poor and ignorant of the working class, wants to be a member of this class he admires. Ruth, the daughter of the house with whom he fell in love at first sight, also has an influence on this. He thinks that if he improves himself, the gap between them can be closed. The only way to achieve this is education, and with his determination, he learns in weeks the information that would take years for a person to learn. He now has an intellectual accumulation far beyond the class he wants to reach. However, since he devotes all his time to being a famous writer rather than to earning money, he falls into even greater poverty than before. Moreover, all the stories and poems he sends are constantly rejected by magazines. Martin Eden is known as the most important of London's "autobiographical" novels. (From the Promotional Bulletin)