num_pages: 160
description: In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx'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 capitalism.
language: English
title: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
titlecomplete: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
genres: Social Science, Business, Biography, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Literature, Economics, History
ratings_count: 967
series: Books That Changed the World
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press