In the canon
Martin Eden
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1909
- Pages
- Pages 490
In a rented room in Oakland, an alarm clock is set for five hours of sleep, and it is the most hopeful object in the book. Martin Eden is a sailor with scarred knuckles and no grammar who is asked to dinner in a well-off house, sees a pale girl and a shelf of Swinburne, and decides to make himself worthy of both.
But I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.
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