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| | Jack London - Literature Vault - Classic Authors and Literature Online! |
 | | He also concluded that his only hope of escaping the work trap was to get an education and "sell his brains." Throughout his life he saw writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty, and, he hoped, a means of beating the wealthy at their own game. |
| | On returning to Oakland in 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden. |
| | Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature."[2] (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/jackbio.html) In his autobiographical novel Martin Eden, the protagonist commits suicide by drowning, a detail that undoubtedly contributed to the myth. |
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