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Martin Eden Jack London
By Jack London
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Eden represents writers' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a "cunning arrangement of cogs" immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip.[citation needed] The central theme of Eden's developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of the K?nstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist
Eden differs from London in that Eden rejects socialism, attacking it as "slave morality" and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. Nevertheless, in the copy of the novel which he inscribed for Upton Sinclair, London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled it, for not a single reviewer has discovered it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
392
Release Date:
1909-09-01
Publication Date:
1909-09-30
Publisher:
SAHARA PUBL BOOKS
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
238226151X
ISBN13:
9782382261514
Weight:
566 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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