The Sea Wolf
by Jack London | 
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London | 
Paradise
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Professor's House
by Willa Cather | 
What Maisie Knew
by Henry James | 
The Victim
by Saul Bellow | 
Plexus
by Henry Miller | 
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
The Princess Casamassima
by Henry James | 
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James | 
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow | 
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
The Big Money
by John Dos Passos | 
The Awkward Age
by Henry James | 
The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville | 
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton | 
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville | 
White Fang
by Jack London | 
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville | 
South Sea Tales
by Jack London |
The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist.