Name: Martin Eden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Price: 1607.00 TWD
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Author: London, Jack
ISBN: 9781774769270

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Martin Eden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

340

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.67 kg.

ISBN13

9781774769270

Synopsis "Martin Eden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

At the beginning of the 20th century, a rough and uneducated former sailor named Martin Eden falls in love with the young, bourgeois Ruth Morse. He goes through an intense period of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. After two years, Ruth loses her patience and rejects him. Eden eventually attains literary acclaim, but instead of enjoying his success, feels that people do not value him for himself or for his work but only for his fame. When London wrote Martin Eden at age 33, he had already achieved international acclaim with The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and White Fang. Despite the acclaim, he quickly became disillusioned with his fame and set sail through the South Pacific on a self-designed ketch, the Snark. On the grueling two-year voyage, as he struggled with tiredness and bowel diseases, he wrote Martin Eden, filling its pages with his frustrations, adolescent gang fights, and struggles for artistic recognition.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian-inspired dust jacket.

Jack London

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Jack London (1876-1916), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, is one of the great American writers of the early 20th century. His world is inspired by a very subjective interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and is built on the principle of survival of the fittest. Born in San Francisco, he was essentially a self-taught child who avidly read the collections of the public library. At seventeen, he embarked on his first schooner, heading to Japan. After several experiences as a sailor and vagabond -which also led to his imprisonment-, London attended Oakland High School and later, the University of California, which he had to leave due to financial problems. Like many, he suffered from gold fever until he finally turned to writing.

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