Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Karl Marx : His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by the political scientist David McLellan. The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995.
Bibliographic information
First edition published in London and New York:These editions were republished several times, in different forms, also as an e-book.
In 1995 a republication appeared under a different name:
In 1975 McLellan also wrote a much more condensed biography of Karl Marx, of 88 pages, with the simple title Marx. This work was reprinted many times.
Background
The first generally known and complete biography of Karl Marx was written by Franz Mehring, and published, first in German as Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Leben in 1918.It would take fifty-five years, before the next really important biography of Marx was written. This was Karl Marx : His Life and Thoughts by McLellan. "What Mehring's biography had been for the first half of the twentieth century — the standard thus far — McLellan’s was for the second half."