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

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. 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. 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. Welcome Dedication Maps Character List A Political Timeline Preface Epigraph Prologue: London, 1851 Part I. Marx and the Baron’s Daughter 1: Trier, Germany, 1835 2: Berlin, 1838 3: Cologne, 1842 4: Kreuznach, 1843 Part II. The Fugitive Family 5: Paris, 1843 6: Paris, 1844 7: Paris, 1845 8: Brussels, Spring 1845 9: London, 1845 10: Brussels, 1846 11: Brussels, 1847 12: Brussels, 1848 13: Paris, 1848 14: Paris, Spring 1848 15: Cologne, 1848 16: Paris, June 1848 17: Cologne, 1849 18: Paris, 1849 Part III. Exile in Victoria’s England 19: London, 1849 20: Zaltbommel, Holland, August 1850 21: London, Winter 1851 22: London, 1852 23: London, 1853 24: London, 1855 Part IV. The End of La Vie Bohème 25: London, Fall 1855 26: London, 1857 27: London, 1859 28: London, 1861 29: London, 1862 Part V. From Capital to the Commune 30: London, 1864 31: London, 1866 32: London, 1867 33: London, 1868 34: London, 1869 35: Paris, Fall 1870 36: Paris, 1871 37: Bagnères-de-Luchon, France, Summer 1871 Part VI. The Red Terrorist Doctor 38: London, 1871 39: The Hague, Fall 1872 40: London, 1875 41: London, 1880 42: London, 1881 43: London, 1882 44: London, 1883 Part VII. After Marx 45: London, Spring 1883 46: London, 1885 47: London, 1887 48: London, 1889 49: London, 1891 50: London, 1892 51: London, 1895 52: London, 1897 53: Draveil, France, 1910 Acknowledgments Copyright Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital 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 Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage.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. “A huge, often gripping book. It gives an entertaining and balanced portrait of Marx, Engels, their colorful milieu of exiles, freaks and revolutionaries, and the little-known Marx family, dominated by Karl’s political obsession. It also details illicit love affairs, the deaths of children and financial struggles, all based on vast research and narrated with empathetic passion... Mary Gabriel offers up a vivid portrait of a struggling, obsessional bohemian intellectual in the capitals of mid-nineteenth-century Europe.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times Book Review " ... The rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death, as well as a vivid account of the woman who gave him the strength to follow his dangerous course."--Jacket