#67 in Classics
Martin Eden
- 411
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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Our view
In “Martin Eden”, Jack London turns a working-class autodidact’s fight to become a writer into a thoughtful, serious classic. Some readers find its early chapters deeply inspiring and are surprised by how much despair the closing ones hold. A little over four hundred pages long, it speaks to anyone curious about how a writer is made.
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About the book
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and then published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 136 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 41 | 30% |
| Hardcover | 8.8 | 95 | 70% |
Frequently asked
How long is Martin Eden?
It has 411 pages — longer than 80% of the ranked books in Classics.
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