Martin Eden

Martin Eden steps into a polished hall with the sea still in his rolling gait—and fears that one wrong move will send the books or bric-a-brac flying. Then he finds a volume of Swinburne, and the room disappears.

A sailor among the comforts of a bourgeois home, Martin feels every difference between himself and the people who live there. When he meets Ruth, the world of books and beauty seems to open before him; but how can a man who has learned his life at sea claim a place in hers? His hunger for knowledge is as fierce as his longing to belong, and both will demand more of him than good manners. What will Martin have to change—and what must he hold on to—to cross the distance between their worlds?

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