Author: Jenny Marx Longuet
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780151239719
Category : Communists
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Jenny Marx Longuet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233973371
Category : Communists
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Mary Gabriel
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031619137X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms-one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution-and of one of the great love stories of all time.

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Languages : en
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Author: Francis Wheen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393049237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.

Author: Ronald Florence
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Shlomo Avineri
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents “a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments” of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal). A philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor, Karl Marx was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history. But he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Here, distinguished scholar Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx’s Jewish origins made a significant impression on his work. Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, and his family had enjoyed full emancipation under earlier French control of the area. But then its annexation to Prussia deprived the Jewish population of its equal rights. These developments led to the reluctant conversion of Marx’s father, and similar tribulations radicalized many other Jewish intellectuals of that time. Avineri puts Marx’s Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective, and traces Marx’s intellectual development in light of the historical, intellectual, and political contexts in which he lived.

Author: Eleanor Marx Aveling
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN: 9781912064434
Category : Communists
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling Letters from England, 1895, edited and with introductions by Tony Chandler and Stephen Williams, translated from the Russian by Francis King.

Author: George Fabian
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462874320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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Author: Tara Bergin
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784103810
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Features the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year Award Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That s all they wanted.'