Jack London’s semi-autobiographical novel, Martin Eden, follows a working-class sailor working feverishly to become a successful writer, while struggling with his love for a society girl.

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Jack London
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Dec 2 2020
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English
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B08PG1M88C
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Listening Length	14 hours and 7 minutes
Author	Jack London
Narrator	Edoardo Ballerini
Audible.ca Release Date	December 02 2020
Publisher	Sylo Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08PG1M88C
Best Sellers Rank	#291,923 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #9,807 in Classic Literature (Audible Books & Originals) #47,945 in Classic Literature (Books)

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Caroline F

Wonderful

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 17, 2014

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A compelling, moving account of the life of a man who had nothing, gained everything, and realized the worth of it all. Almost a retelling of Ecclesiastes.

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Greg Hughes

Agony and Ecstasy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 1, 2001

I'm fairly new to Jack London's work, first hearing of him through his science fiction contributions. After reading his excellent novella "The Scarlet Plague", I then read some of his short stories about the Alaskan wilderness before coming across "Martin Eden".
This is an autobiographical novel describing a young man, Martin Eden, and his long struggle to improve his standing in society. At the beginning of the story Martin is inarticulate, rough around the edges, and awkward in the presence of those he initially believes to be socially superior. When he meets Ruth Morse, a young lady of elegance and education, Martin's life changes. Impressed by Ruth's knowledge and apparent wisdom, Martin decides he wants to "make good". It turns out Martin has a hard road to hoe.
This is an inspiring novel of a man who, while experiencing intellectual growth, endures poverty, hunger, rejection, and all manner of hardship in his efforts to succeed as a writer. Fame and fortune seem a long way off. Because we know the story is based on Jack London's life, we can be certain that Martin's persistence will eventually be rewarded. But what comes after success? And what's it all worth?
"Martin Eden" is a long journey of hope, bitterness and triumph. This is about a man who doesn't give in to adversity or yield to the conventions that society imposes on us. That makes Martin something rare. Most of us do get forced into that traditional pattern of drudgery and routine, of being slotted into a safe, sensible job with a comfortable salary, because that's what society expects of us. The pressure is hard to resist. It will be a long time before any of this changes. I think this book also says something about society's shallowness.
"Martin Eden" is a fine novel. I may be stating the obvious, but stories about people who started with nothing are much more interesting than stories about heirs to a fortune.

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oh_pete

A Neglected American Classic of Weight and Depth

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 1, 2000

MARTIN EDEN follows the rise and fall of a young sailor who by sheer force of will educates himself and succeeds in becoming a famous writer (this is London's autobiographical novel, published in 1909, when he was thirty-three and the most popular living writer in the world). Few readers liked it then, they found it dark and depressing after a certain point; they wanted the entertainment they were used to from London ("Come on, Jack, give us another story with dogs and snow in it!"). Not as many read it now as should, and London himself disdained the fact that it inspired many young writers without talent to follow Martin Eden's example. But it is also a valuable story about a young man maturing in his conception of love as regards the opposite sex:
"Ambition soared on mad wings, and he saw himself climbing the heights with her, pleasuring in beautiful and noble things with her. It was a soul-possession he dreamed, refined beyond any grossness, a free comradeship of spirit that he could not put into definite thought." -- The youth becomes a man.
London's prose is straightforward and vibrant, much like the author at his best. Martin Eden falls victim to the vicissitudes of his fame and fortune, much like the author at his worst (too much hard living is often given as the reason for London's death at forty). London spends a lot of time in this book criticizing American materialism in the way that materialism ought to be criticized. He also displays a certain kind of American work ethic (five hours of sleep a night, perseverance through failure, etc.) that sometimes doesn't know what to do with itself once it achieves success. We should all have that problem--just hope that we deal with it better than young Martin Eden does. A very worthwhile read.

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The Professor

The most underrated book I've ever read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 26, 2002

If there's such a thing as an American canon, this book should be there. Everytime I recommend this book to a friend, they ask, "Who's it by?" "Jack London." "Jack London! The author of call of the wild?"
Well, yes. He's the one, but wait!, this book is like nothing else Jack London has ever written, and bears scant semblance to his Sea Wolf or Call of the Wild. In short, this is serious literature (advance apologies to Call of the Wild and Sea Wolf fans), and it's worth reading.
This book reminded me a lot of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (another wonderful book). Both begin with hope, engage in change, and end in pathos. Martin Eden is a self-educated, self-made man (see why I say it should be in the American canon?) who attempts to garner the love of a young college student who pushes him out of what she sees to be his stifling chrysalis and become more like her and her fellow intelligentsia. The plot thickens when he does not only this, but surpasses them all in erudition with a passionate, eager mind, a more eager heart, and lots of hard work, all in the name of love. And then in the book's climax, he decides to ... oh, I can't tell you that. You'll hate me, and I'll ruin the book for you.
What I can tell you, however, is that if you go to a bookstore, and pay full price for this book, you'll love it and feel that you've gotten a good bang for your buck. If you get it at a discount, you'll walk away feeling as though you've five-finger discounted this little gem.
Read it ... you'll be glad you did.

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Andrej Yeremeiev

Electronic version of the book is not full!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 17, 2022

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First of all it's just scanned badly and there are numerous mistakes there. I felt an impression that his and her were sometimes replaced by one another and I couldn't understad who was doing what. Secondly it is just not a full book. Probably it's just only a half of it. Do not buy it, you will have to buy a new one with full content afterwards anyway

Kristin

A beautiful, semi-autobiographical story about a man's willingness to become ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2016

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A beautiful, semi-autobiographical story about a man's willingness to become educated and his struggle to establish himself as a writer. More than 100 years later, little has changed for disadvantaged people.

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Elalagod Elzbieta Lagodzka

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 14, 2020

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I will never buy a book from Amazon The font is so tiny I cannot read !!!!!!!!!!

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Mr. R. W. Mellard

Read and weep

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 14, 2013

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So true, so tragic. Will make you think about who you are. Jack was a primitive socialist and all the experiences described have all the rawness of a life lived on the edge of emotion.

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Theogeorge

Unintelligible.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 1, 2020

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This version of "Martin Eden" seems to have been translated by a machine. It bears no resemblance to English. I know it was cheap, but I still feel cheated.

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