We offer you to listen to a novel by the outstanding American writer Jack London about a dream and its achievement. Out of love for a girl who’s “not his equal,” a young sailor decides to get an education and become a writer. Willpower and individualism help him overcome the circumstances of his birth, but they don’t bring him happiness. “He—who all his life had been called ‘Iden,’ or ‘Martin Iden,’ or simply ‘Martin’—suddenly became a ‘Mr.’ ‘That means something,’ he noted to himself. His mind suddenly turned into a huge camera obscura, and before him, one after another, came different pictures of his life: engine rooms, ship holds, docks, landings, prisons, and taverns; hospitals and grim slums—everything threaded onto a single axis, the form of address he had grown accustomed to there…”