Karl Marx

English historian and journalist Francis Wheen's fresh and widely translated biography of Karl Marx is the first attempt to write a study of the life of the famous German philosopher and social activist. Wheen is interested not only in Marx as a thinker, but above all in Marx as a person. Wheen devotes a great deal of attention to the family life and interpersonal relationships of the author of Capital, to his passions and phobias, thus revealing the unconventional side of Marx's life. Wheen, who has drawn on a wide range of sources, describes with ingenuity and a deft touch how a modest Prussian Jew became an influential English gentleman whose ideas conquered much of the world.