John Griffith London was an American novelist and journalist. He was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. This novel is about a strong-willed, rough young working-class fellow with years of sailing all over the four seas behind him getting introduced to high society after having rescued the son of a wealthy family from a street brawl, and promptly falling head-over-heels in love with the lovely and very sophisticated daughter of the house. And thereafter doing his best to rise up to the standards of speech, behaviour and intellect expected of him by the object of his attention and her family, only to find that the more he studies and masters language and the world of books, the more not only does he want to express himself by writing in various domains - poetry, stories, novels, essays, philosophy, nothing is beyond the scope of his immense confidence in his own abilities, intellectual prowess and destiny - but also the more he becomes contemptuous of the shallowness and limitations of the bourgeois society and their values in which his loved one is so perfectly integrated. You can listen online to free English audiobook “Martin Eden” by Jack London on our website. Enjoy it!
