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    Walker, D. L., ed. The Fiction of Jack London: A Chronological Bibliography. El Paso, Texas, 1972.
    Walker, F. Jack London and the Klondike. San Marino, California, 1966.
    â€”————. The Seacoast of Bohemia: An Account of Early Carmel. San Francisco, 1966.

ARTICLES
    Calder-Marshall, A. “Introduction.” Martin Eden (The Bodley Head Jack London). 4 vols. London, 1965.
    Etulain, R. “The Lives of Jack London.” Western American Literature 11 (1976).
    Geismar, M. “Jack London: The Short Cut.” In Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890—1915. Boston, 1953.
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    Shivers, A. S. “The Romantic in Jack London.” Alaska Review 1 (1963).
    Walcutt, C. C. “Jack London: Blond Beasts and Supermen.” In American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream. Minneapolis, 1956.
    Walker, F. “Jack London: Martin Eden.” In The American Novel from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner, edited by W. Stegner. New York, 1965.

A NOTE ON THE TEXT
    The text of Martin Eden is that of the first edition of the book, published by The Macmillan Company in 1909. No Collected Edition of the works of Jack London has yet been published, and London himself refused to revise his printed works. Punctuation and spelling have been slightly modernized; the author’s very occasional archaisms and grammatical errors have also been corrected; for example, “bicycle shop” has been substituted for “cyclery” and “wafting” for “wafture.”

Chapter One
    T he one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself. He did not know what to do with his cap, and was stuffing it into his coat pocket when the other took it from him. The act was done quietly and naturally, and the awkward young fellow appreciated it. “He understands,” was his thought. “He’ll see me through all right.”
    He walked at the other’s heels with a swing to his shoulders, and his legs spread unwittingly, as if the level floors were tilting up and sinking down to the heave and lunge of the sea. The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel. He recoiled from side to side between the various objects and multiplied the hazards that in reality lodged only in his mind. Between a grand piano and a center-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation. His heavy arms hung loosely at his sides. He did not know what to do with those arms and hands, and when, to his excited vision, one arm seemed liable to brush against the books on the table, he lurched