Martin Eden Author:Jack London From back cover: From the lusty pen of a superb writer comes Martin Eden - Jack London's most vital and original novel, and one of the towering characterizations of American literature. Here, thinly veiled, is Jack London's own magnificent story - the story of an adventurous spirit who wrote of life as he saw it - who became the living symbol of... more » a virile new country, and the most lionized writer of his day. But it is the story, also, of a sick and desperate man who masked a tragic soul the world (and the woman he loved) was never to understand.« less