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Friedrich Engels

 

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Friedrich Engels : 

'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Brown      Print: Book

  

Friedrich Engels : The Peasant War in Germany

'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl      Print: Book

  

Friedrich Engels : The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl      Print: Book

  

Friedrich Engels : Conditions of the Working Classess in England

'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised anger in me, instead of grief. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

 

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