Name: Martin Eden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (in English)
Price: 37.85 USD
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Author: London, Jack
ISBN: 9781774769270

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

Inglés

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) (in English)"

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), seudónimo de John Griffith Chaney, es uno de los grandes escritores estadounidenses de los albores del siglo XX. Su mundo se inspira en una interpretación muy subjetiva de la filosofía de Nietzsche y se construye a partir del principio de lucha por la supervivencia. Nacido en San Francisco, fue esencialmente un niño autodidacta que leía con avidez los fondos de la biblioteca pública. Con diecisiete años se embarcó en su primera goleta, rumbo a Japón. Tras varias experiencias como marinero y vagabundo -razón por la que también fue encarcelado-, London acudió a la Oakland High School y, posteriormente, a la Universidad de California, que tuvo que abandonar por problemas económicos. Como muchos, sufrió la fiebre del oro hasta que, finalmente, se dedicó a la escritura.

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