Karl Marx: The Story of His Life

Cover of the first edition
Author	Franz Mehring
Original title	Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens
Translator	Edward Fitzgerald
Country	Germany
Language	German
Subject	Karl Marx
Published	1918 (in German) 1935 (Covici, Friede, Inc, in English)
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	608 (English edition)
ISBN	978-0415607261
Website	[1]

Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (German: Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens) is a 1918^[1] book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the German historian Franz Mehring. Considered the classical biography of Marx,^[2] the work has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1920), Swedish (1921–1922), Danish (1922), Hungarian (1925), Japanese (1930), Spanish (1932), English (1935), and Hebrew (1940–1941).^[3]

Reception

The political scientist David McLellan writes that Karl Marx: The Story of His Life is the "classical biography of Marx", adding that it is now "slightly hagiographical" and out of date.^[2] In 1953, the philosopher Louis Althusser wrote that it is the "most comprehensive and interesting historical study of Marx".^[4]