Karl Marx: The Story of His Life

Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Cover of the first edition
AuthorFranz Mehring
Original titleKarl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens
TranslatorEdward Fitzgerald
LanguageGerman
SubjectKarl Marx
Published
  • 1918 (in German)
  • 1935 (Covici, Friede, Inc, in English)
Publication placeGermany
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages608 (English edition)
ISBN978-0415607261
Websitetranscription of the 1935 edition at marxists.org

Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (German: Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens) is a 1918 book about the philosopher, economist and revolutionary Karl Marx by the German historian Franz Mehring. Considered the classical biography of Marx for a long time, the work has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1920), Dutch (1921), Swedish (1921–1922), Danish (1922), Hungarian (1925), Japanese (1930), Spanish (1932), English (1935), Hebrew (1940–1941), Slovenian (1974), Turkish (2012).