Karl Marx: A biography by David McLellan

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 one-

e 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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