<p><strong>English edition.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Das Kapital</em> is "a groundbreaking work of economic analysis, but also an unfinished literary masterpiece which, with its multi-layered structure, can be read as a Gothic novel, a Victorian melodrama, a Greek tragedy or a Swiftian satire."</strong> Francis Wheen, <em>The Guardian.</em></p><p><strong>Though he died in 1883, Karl Marx''s <em>Das Kapital</em>, "the Bible of the working class," has been the book that most shaped twentieth-century history.</strong> His theories divided much of the world into two blocs, one embracing communism and the other fearing it, and cast a shadow into the twenty-first century.</p><p>Although Marx writes as a philosopher and economist presenting an analysis of an economic system, the book is surprisingly readable. It reads like a Gothic novel "whose heroes are enslaved and consumed by the monster they created."</p><p>Though many disagree with Marx''s conclusions, hi