Martin Eden: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Martin Eden, credited to Jack London, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Martin Eden, by Jack London. Read by Greg W. Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by The Macmillan Company in September 1909. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' returning it automatically with a rejection slip. While some readers believe there is some resemblance between them, an important difference between Jack London and Martin Eden is that Martin Eden rejects socialism (attacking it as 'slave morality'), and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, Jack London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it." (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Martin Eden
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 14:48:13

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• writing
• Jack London

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Chapter I — 27:51
2. 02 - Chapter II — 26:14
3. 03 - Chapter III — 17:34
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 12:22
5. 05 - Chapter V — 13:45
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 18:35
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 25:23
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 20:01
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 21:19
10. 10 - Chapter X — 14:19
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 17:28
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 11:46
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 24:21
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 29:16
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 20:17
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 18:03
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 16:12
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 9:56
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 16:50
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 17:47
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 14:36
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 15:45
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 14:01
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 20:49

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