At home with Karl Marx

I first encountered the Marx family story in the back of a London magazine,” Mary Gabriel writes in the opening line of her intimate account of Karl Marx and his family. It is not a reassuring start for the reader, particularly when the publisher promises a book that uncovers “the unyielding love that bound together a man and woman in the midst of history’s whirlwind”. Gabriel should try to have whoever came up with that one fired.

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