The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman.

• | By (Author): Tristram Hunt
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 464 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0141021403
• | ISBN-13: 9780141021409