Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer.
Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-clas.
His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse.
Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer