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The novel by Jack London (originally published in 1909) is a bildungsroman of a self-taught sailor turned writer, set in early 20th-century America, exploring the clash between ambition, class mobility, and the price of artistic integrity. Through the protagonist’s relentless drive to transcend his working-class origins, the work interrogates themes of individualism, social inequality, and the tension between popular success and inner fulfilment. In its atmospheric prose and unflinching realism, the novel offers a critique of the “self-made man” myth and remains significant in the tradition of American literary realism and social critique.