A classic work of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical details with economic analysis to produce a bitter condemnation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It was also the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin did for biology.

Tens of millions of readers in the 21st century have considered Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the Bible itself. It is not a simple work of dry economics, but Marx's grand work depicting the development of industrial capitalism as a tragic dramatic performance - with a message that has not lost its significance today.

This is the only abridged edition that takes the entire Capital into account. It offers almost the entirety of Volume 1, which Marx published in 1867, extracts from new translations of "The Result of the Immediate Production Process," and a selection of significant chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895.

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