•    Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author about a young proletarian struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and then published in book form by in September 1909. Eden represents writers` frustration with publishers. The central theme of Eden`s developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of the , which narrates an artist`s formation and development. Eden differs from London in rejecting , attacking it as " and relying on individualism. Nevertheless, in the copy of the novel which he inscribed for , London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled it, for not a single reviewer has discovered it."