In his classic of early modernism, Marx combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which...

Kathy Kolla and David Brock investigate when first one and then another of Karl Marx's great-granddaughters are killed, leaving "clues pointing to an unsuspected fourth volume of Das Kapital, a laundry list of suspects, and a plot to make Kathy history."--Jacket