Marx's Das Kapital : a biography

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 130 pages; Description: 130 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. -- Kapital. Capital. Communism. Summary: From the Publisher: In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marxa (TM)s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.