| Karl Marx: The Story of His Life | |
| Title Orig: | Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens |
| Translator: | Edward Fitzgerald |
| Author: | Franz Mehring |
| Country: | Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Subject: | Karl Marx |
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| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages: | 608 (English edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0415607261 |
| Website: | https://www.marxists.org/archive/mehring/1918/marx/ |
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (German: Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens) is a 1918[1] book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the German historian Franz Mehring. Considered the classical biography of Marx,[2] the work has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1920), Swedish (1921–1922), Danish (1922), Hungarian (1925), Japanese (1930), Spanish (1932), English (1935), and Hebrew (1940–1941).[3]
The political scientist David McLellan writes that Karl Marx: The Story of His Life is the "classical biography of Marx", adding that it is now "slightly hagiographical" and out of date.[2] In 1953, the philosopher Louis Althusser wrote that it is the "most comprehensive and interesting historical study of Marx".[4]