Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution - Paperback

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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution - Paperback

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution - Paperback

by Mary Gabriel
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Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, this book 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Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage.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.
ISBN9780316066129
Author Mary Gabriel
PublisherLittle, Brown Paperbacks
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages784
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mary Gabriel

Mary Gabriel is the author of Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction and the 2019 Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's Mary Lynn Kotz Award. Gabriel's previous book, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. She worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades and lives in Ireland.

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