User talk:Anne Ominous

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Greetings from another Jack London fan!

Sorry to snip your comment on Martin Eden, but the book is described elsewhere in the article, and it's really in a different category from The Road, '"John Barleycorn, and The Cruise of the Snark.''

The boundaries of truth and fiction blur in his work, and few biographers have avoided the trap of reading his novels as autobiography; conversely, The Road and John Barleycorn are storytelling and, according to one biographer (Joseph Noel) stretch the truth considerably.

Still, in The Road and John Barleycorn the narrator speaks in the first person as Jack London. In Martin Eden he does not. Even though it's usually read as a thinly veiled roman-a-clef, it is still not "straight" autobiography. Note that Martin Eden, unlike Jack London, rejects socialism.

Quite a lot of his books have characters with resemblances to Jack London living in places like Oakland and Glen Ellen (the protagonist of The Iron Heel, for example). The Little Lady of the Big House is another case in point. But it is not really nonfiction or an autobiographical memoir.

If you can find a cited source for reading "Martin Eden" as "ME," that could go in the article somewhere. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)