Das Kapital in the British Library, London. At the time of his death (1883), Marx had prepared the manuscript for "Das Kapital, Volume IV", a critical history of theories of surplus value of his time, the nineteenth century. The philosopher Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) published a partial edition of Marx's surplus-value critique and later published a full, three-volume edition as "Theorien über den Mehrwert" ("Theories of Surplus Value", 1905–1910). The first volume was published in English as "A History of Economic Theories" (1952). "Capital, Volume I" (1867) was published in Marx’s lifetime, but he died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for "Capital,
Biographies of Karl Marx The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995. Marx Without Myth: A Chronological Study of his Life and Work by Maximilien Rubel Karl Marx is a 2010 biography by journalist Francis Wheen. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life is a 2013 biography of Karl Marx by Jonathan Sperber. Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is a 2016 biography of Karl Marx by British historian Gareth Stedman-Jones. Marx: The Man and His Message is a biography by Keir Hardie. Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism. Written: 1914 1938: Karl Marx, London: Chapman & Hall