Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable English-language biographies of the life of Karl Marx in chronological order
Karl Marx, Jenny Marx, Eleanor Marx, Laura Marx and Friedrich Engels
Engel's speech (1883) Friedrich Engels
https://libcom.org/library/marx-death-engels
Marx: The Man and His Message (1910) Keir Hardie
(Labour party)
https://libcom.org/library/marx-man-his-message-1910-keir-hardie
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Marx_the_man_and_his_message.pdf
Karl Marx: His Life and Work (1910) John Spargo
(Socialist Party of America)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-his-life-work-1910-john-spargo
https://archive.org/details/cu31924002310864
Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch (1914) Vladimir Lenin
(Bolshevik)
http://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-brief-biographical-sketch-1914-vladimir-lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/index.htm
https://archive.org/details/KarlMarxABriefBiographicalSketchWithAnExpositionOfMarxism
Karl Marx: The Man and his work and the Constructive Elements of Socialism (1918) Karl Dannenberg
(Socialist Labor Party)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-man-his-work-1918-karl-dannenburg
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735066228721.pdf
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918) Franz Mehring
(Social Democrat)
https://libcom.org/history/karl-marx-story-his-life-franz-mehring
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mehring/1918/marx/
Karl Marx: An Essay (1921) Harold Laski
(Labour party)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-essay-1921-harold-laski
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217939
The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (1925) M. Beer
(Leninist - German Communist Party)
https://libcom.org/library/life-teaching-karl-marx-1925-m-beer
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228158
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37290
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1927) David Riazanov
(Bolshevik)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-friedrich-engels-1927-david-riazanov
https://www.marxists.org/archive/riazanov/works/1927-ma/
Karl Marx: His Life and Work (1928) Otto Rühle
(Council communist)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-his-life-work-1928-otto-r%C3%BChle
https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1928/marx/
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58873
http://www.redtexts.org/html/ruhle_marx.html
Marx: Man and Fighter (1933) Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen
(Menshevik)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-man-fighter-1933-boris-nicolaievsky-otto-maenchen-helfen
https://www.scribd.com/document/122733163/Karl-Marx-Man-and-Fighter-pdf
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238453
http://www.redtexts.org/html/man_and_fighter.html
Karl Marx (1938) C. J. S. Sprigge
(Guardian journalist)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-1938-c-j-s-sprigge
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59084
Karl Marx (1939) Karl Korsch
("Western Marxist")
https://libcom.org/history/karl-marx-karl-korsch
https://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1938/karl-marx/
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939) Isaiah Berlin
(Liberal)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-his-life-environment-1939-isaiah-berlin
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226880
Reminiscences of Karl Marx (1944) Paul Lafargue and Wilhelm Liebknecht
(Marxist)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38818
Karl Marx: An Illustrated History (1960) Werner Blumenberg
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-illustrated-history-1960-werner-blumenberg
https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/werner-blumenberg-potrait-of-marx.pdf
Karl Marx (1960) Jean Bruhat
(Leninist - French Communist Party)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5231239W/Karl_Marx
Marx (1963) Arnold Kettle
(Leninist - Communist Party of Great Britain)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4984682W/Karl_Marx
Karl Marx: A Biography (1968) Heinrich Gemkow
(Leninist - German Communist Party)
https://archive.org/details/MarxBiographyGDR
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (1973) David McLellan
https://libcom.org/history/karl-marx-biography-david-mclellan-3rd-edition
Marx Without Myth (1975) Maximilien Rubel
(Left communist)
https://libcom.org/library/marx-without-myth-1975-maximilien-rubel
https://archive.org/details/marx-without-myth
Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography (1976) Saul K. Padover
(Anti-communist)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7960763W/Karl_Marx
Marx for Beginners (1976) Rius
https://archive.org/details/MarxForBeginners-English
Karl Marx: A Biography (1977) P. N. Fedoseyev
(Leninist - Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
(1977 edition)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-biography-1977-p-n-fedoseyev
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ZP6ZurgOg-MGtJZ24xWExDUzQ/view
(1989 edition)
https://archive.org/details/KarlMarxABiography
Marx: Life and Works (1980) Maximilien Rubel
(Left communist)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1364646W/Marx_life_and_works
Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life (1993) Jerrold Seigel
(Academic)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PmLoKuAOu6wC&printsec=frontcover
The Incomplete Marx (1994) Felton Shortall
https://libcom.org/library/incomplete-marx
A Requiem for Karl Marx (1995, Harvard University Press) Frank E. Manuel
(Academic)
https://books.google.co.uk/books/p/harvard?id=ZdGy25z1sUAC&printsec=frontcover
Karl Marx (1998, Harvard) Professor Michael E. Rosen
(Academic)
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/ecn265/rosen_on_marx.pdf
Karl Marx (1999) Francis Wheen
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4150249W/Karl_Marx
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r_3c34tQm0cC&printsec=frontcover
Marx (2009) Vincent Barnett
(Academic)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9352880W/Marx
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2oq4BAAACAAJ
Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2010) Rolf Hosfield
(Academic)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-intellectual-biography-2010-rolf-hosfield
https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/rolf-hosfeld-karl-marx-an-intellectual-biography1.pdf
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011) Mary Gabriel
https://libcom.org/library/love-capital-mary-gabriel
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (2012) Alex Callinicos
(Trotskyist)
https://libcom.org/library/revolutionary-ideas-karl-marx-2012-alex-callinicos
http://mexicosolidarity.org/sites/default/files/Callinicos%20-%20Revotionary%20idea%20of%20Marx.pdf
Karl Marx (Critical Lives) (2012) Paul Thomas
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3953014W/Karl_Marx_and_the_anarchists
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fPRBe5OZ8mUC&printsec=frontcover
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781861899064
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (2013) Jonathan Sperber
(Academic)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806613W/Karl_Marx
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hBpSh9JYAKcC&printsec=frontcover
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (2016) Gareth Stedman-Jones
(Academic)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20040277W/Karl_Marx
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mu2pCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx (2018) Sven Eric-Liedman
(Social Democrat?)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19740012W/A_world_to_win
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2711-a-world-to-win
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society (2019) Michael Heinrich
(?)
https://libcom.org/library/karl-marx-birth-modern-society-michael-heinrich
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6OSdDwAAQBAJ
The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020) Marcello Musto
(?)
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Arnold Kettle: 'Marx' (1963)
Arnold Kettle: 'Marx' (1963)
Cheers, added various
Cheers, added various biographies.
There's a new one (2018),
There's a new one (2018), available only in German for now. A three-volume project by Michael Heinrich, it's called "Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society". The first volume, on the 1818 – 1841 period, is over 400 pages. It's extremely detailed and also goes into the various debates. It includes a critical essay on biography as a genre. The next volumes are planned for 2020 and 2022.
http://www.schmetterling-verlag.de/page-5_isbn-3-89657-085-4.htm
I think this sets a new standard for Marx biographies.
@ jura Is there an english
@ jura
Is there an english translation in the works? If so, how soon do you think it will be available? Are there reviews on the first volume that you think can be put up in the library?
Unfortunately, I have no
Unfortunately, I have no idea, and I've only seen reviews in German so far.
Yes, an English translation
Yes, an English translation has apparently been completed by Alexander Locascio - the same guy who did the Introduction to the Three Volumes. It should be out this year. Or at least that's what I've heard. But I'm still waiting for The Science of Value!
Any documentaries or films
Any documentaries or films you’d recommend?
Thanks.
doug wrote: Yes, an English
doug
According to one long time regular poster, The Science of Value was suppose to be released as part of the Historical Materialism book series, in 2013 at the earliest.
Noah Fence
Have you heard of The Young Karl Marx, directed by Raoul Peck? It unfortunately got a mixed reception, but it should still make for an interesting watch.
Btw, Michael Heinrich speaks
Btw, Michael Heinrich speaks about his biography in English here. Elsewhere (I think at Historical Materialism), he's talked favourably about the parallels between Marx and anarchism, especially in terms of the free development of the individual. I'm a big fan! :D
Announced release date for
Announced release date for the English translation of the Heinrich is February 2019:
https://www.amazon.com/Karl-Marx-Birth-Modern-Society/dp/1583677356/ref=sr_1_3_twi_har_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531671093&sr=1-3
Interview with Heinrich about
Interview with Heinrich about the biography here: https://mronline.org/2019/06/03/106637
A couple of short reactions to it here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39975054-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society
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