KARL MARX

Marx: A Biography sets the man and his ideas
against the historical sweep of his times. It
Marx from his middle-class origins in Trier
student days in Bonn, through the years of
travel across Europe in search of sanctuary to
London, and the titanic labours on Capital at the
famous desk in the British Museum Reading
Room, and finally to the cemetery at 1 lighgate.
Expertly informed yet eminently readable,
Marx vividly evokes the life and times from
h emerged the ideas that have had such an
incomparable impact on the tide of world affairs.
epilogue brings together pen portraits of Marx
n from several contemporaries, and the book
ends with an invaluable chronological table
and an extensive critical biography.
could be said that the biographers have only
changed Marx in various ways; the point is to
interpret him - and McLellan has filled a very real
in doing this as fairly as he can ... he has
produced the most up-to-date, well-informed,
reliable and sensible biography so far.'
New Society
authoritative and thorough re-creation of
Marx's life and thought - and the interaction
between the two . . . undoubtedly the best onee
biography of the great man in existence.'
Sunday Times
Cover illustration shows a derail of Karl Marx
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Biography
ISBN 0-333-63947-2
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