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"martin eden" a book written by jack london, was when published, not the roaring success so many of Londons novels were. Yet time has been kind to this most extraordinary of Londons works. Whilst the early popularity of most of his books meant that those early heights would not be repeated, with "Martin Edon" the trend is reversed, for as the years have passed it is this work which time and again demands a reprint.
Martin Edon is an autobiographical work, yet in it's final pages it tells of a man who having acheived everything desires so little or perhaps so much that he does battle against the great buoyancy of the sea to force himself so deep that he must drown. The death of Martin Eden is horrific for he is a young man with the world at his feet, his suicide seems a selfish act, who has not suffered by love, it is for us to live on and learn; so that should we love again we will have the strength and tactics to avoid it's lethal thrusts against us, love is treacherous it's power underestimated, did London foretell of his own early death from an overdose of Heroin?
How long before the demolition crew hits this place.