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Title: Selected Essays

Author: Karl Marx

Translator: H. J. Stenning

Release Date: May 22, 2007 [EBook #21565]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SELECTED ESSAYS

BY
KARL MARX

TRANSLATED BY
H.J. STENNING

_Essay Index Reprint Series_

BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, INC.
FREEPORT, NEW YORK

First Published 1926
Reprinted 1968

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:
68-16955

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

The present volume consists of a translation of some of Karl Marx's
principal writings during the six years 1844-1850.

In 1843 Marx was twenty-five years old. He had just married,
apparently on the strength of the modest salary he was to receive for
editing, jointly with Arnold Ruge, a periodical called the
_Deutsch-Franzoesische Jahrbuecher_ (_Franco-Germa