Martin Eden
by Jack London
565 pages~9 hrs
“To win her world, he sacrificed his own.”
Driven by an intense passion for a woman above his station, rough-hewn sailor Martin Eden launches a relentless assault on the literary world to prove his worth. This powerful semi-autobiographical tale captures the grueling climb from poverty to intellectual heights and the bittersweet realization of what is lost along the way.
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