Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is now out with Allen Lane and Belknap Press, a monumental biography and historical contextualization of Marx’s thinking. Stedman Jones, author of the superb Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society and Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, is also the editor of the Penguin edition of the The Communist Manifesto. Penguin will also publish a paperback edition of this new book in May 2017.

I haven’t read it yet, but recent presentations (here at the LSE and the video below at Queen Mary UL)  make it look terrific.