Karl Marx, 5th Edition

“A model of objective clarity.”–Richard Charques, Times Literary Supplement “[Berlin’s] book, a perennial classic, has all the virtues of Berlin himself: charm, erudition, and (occasionally) grandiloquence.”–Peter E. Gordon, New Republic “The best brief account of the life and thought of Marx.”–Saturday Review “Exceptional … [A]s a portrait of the man and the intellectual climate of the mid-nineteenth century it is, perhaps, the finest we have.”–Chimen Abramsky, Jewish Chronicle “[Berlin’s] accounts of Marx’s theses are sometimes more effective than Marx’s own words, and his descriptions of Marx as a man are remarkably vivid.”–H. B. Acton, Political Studies “Berlin’s attitude to his subject is exemplary, and on the whole it is the best introduction to it that we have… [The book] makes Marx intelligible, both as a person and as a thinker.”–A. L. Rowse, Political Quarterly

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, and Against the Current (all Princeton). Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin’s literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin’s letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.