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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
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Memoirs

LOVE AND CAPITAL

Mary Gabriel

Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

In LOVE AND CAPITAL, Mary Gabriel has given us a vivid, resplendent, and truly human portrait of the Marxes - their desires, heartbreak and devotion to each other's ideals.

Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel brings to light the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. We follow them as they roam Europe, on the run from governments amidst an age of revolution and a secret network of would-be revolutionaries, and see Karl not only as an intellectual, but as a protective father and loving husband, a revolutionary, a jokester, a man of tremendous passions, both political and personal.
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.

Mary Gabriel worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly 20 years. She is the author of two previous biographies, Notorious Victoria (1998) and The Art of Acquiring (2002). She lives in Italy.

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Book Published 2011-09-01 by Little, Brown and Co.
Book Published 2011-09-01 by Little, Brown and Co.

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James Schamus’ banner Symbolic Exchange is teaming up with Germany’s X-Filme, France’s Haut et Court, and Andrea Calderwood and Gail Egan’s UK company Potboiler to produce a TV series based on Mary Gabriel’s Karl Marx family biography LOVE AND CAPITAL. The project will be developed and produced in Europe. Published in 2011, LOVE AND CAPITAL drew upon years of research of the Marx family and followed Jenny and Karl as they roamed around Europe, on the run from hostile governments amidst a secret network of would-be revolutionaries. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle and the Pulitzer Prize. Read more...

"a magisterial account of the lives of Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, remarkable for the ease with which it moves between the domestic and the political spheres, offering a vivid picture of the man who not only gave birth to modern socialism but who was also a loving husband and doting father . With a fluid style that belies her considerable research, Gabriel offers us the human, family side of a character more usually seen as a calculating theoretician, and in so doing offers an intimate glimpse into the trials, tribulations, and passions of a man who, more than any other thinker, has shaped our modern notions of work, money, and social relations."

The book has also been licensed in Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Korea, and Turkey.