Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 02

Volume 2:
Works of Frederick Engels

August 1838-December 1842

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Preface	xiii
The Bedouin	3
To the Enemies	5
Book Wisdom	6
Letters from Wuppertal	7
To the Bremen Courier	26
Open Letter to Dr. Runkel	27
F. W. Krummacher's Sermon on Joshua	29
From Elberfeld	30
German Volksbucher	39
Karl Beck	41
Retrograde Signs of the Times	41
Platen	47
On the Invention of Printing	53
Joel Jacoby	55
Requiem for the German Adelszeitung	66
Modern Literary Life	71
I. Karl Gutzkow as Dramatist	71
II. Modern Polemics	81
On Anastasius Grun	94
Landscapes	95
Reports from Bremen	101
Theatre. Publishing Festival	102
Literature	104
An Evening	107
Reports from Bremen	112
An Outing to Bremerhaven	112
Two Sermons by F. W. Krummacher	121
On the Death of Immermann	123
Reports from Bremen	126
Rationalism and Pietism	126
Shipping Project. Theatre. Manoeuvres	128
St. Helena	131
Siegfried's Native Town	132
Ernst Moritz Arndt	137
Night Ride	151
The Emperor's Procession	153
Reports from Bremen	155
Ecclesiastical Controversy	155
Relation to Literature. Music	158
Low German	159
Immermann's Memorabilien	161
Wanderings in Lombardy	170
Over the Alps	170
Schelling on Hegel	181
Schelling and Revelation	189
Schelling, Philosopher in Christ	241
North- and South-German Liberalism	265
Diary of a Guest Student	268
Rhenish Festivals	274
Marginalia to Texts of Our Time	277
Polemic Against Leo	281
Alexander Jung, "Lectures on Modern German Literature"	284
Participation in the Debates of the Baden Chamber of Deputies	298
The Liberalism of the Spenersche Zeitung	300
The End of the Criminalistische Zeitung	302
On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws	313
The Insolently Threatened Yet Miraculously Rescued Bible	326
Canto the Second	334
Canto the Third	344
Canto the Fourth	344
F W Andrea and the High Nobility of Germany	352
Berlin Miscellany	353
Centralisation and Freedom	355
Frederick William IV, King of Prussia	360
The English View of the Internal Crises	368
The Internal Crises	370
The Position of the Political Parties	375
The Condition of the Working Class in England	378
The Corn Laws	380
Letters August 1838-August 1842
1838
To Marie Engels, Aug 28-29	385
To Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, September 1	388
To Marie Engels, September 11	390
To Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, September 17	392
To Marie Engels, October 9-10	399
To Marie Engels, November 13	402
To Marie Engels, end of December	403
1839
To Marie Engels, January 7	405
To Friedrich Graeber, January 20	407
To Friedrich Graeber, February 19	414
To Hermann Engels, March 11-12	417
To Marie Engels, March 12	419
To Friedrich Graeber, April 8-9	420
To Marie Engels, April 10	423
To Friedrich Graeber, about April 23-May	425
To Marie Engels, April 28	437
To Wilhelm Graeber, about April 28-30	442
To Marie Engels, May 23	447
To Wilhelm Graeber, May 24 - June 15	448
To Friedrich Graeber, June 15	453
To Friedrich Graeber, July 12-27	457
To Friedrich Graeber, after July 27	463
To Wilhelm Graeber, July 30	464
To Marie Engels, September 28	469
To Wilhelm Graeber, October 8	471
To Wilhelm Graeber, October 20-21	474
To Friedrich Graeber, October 29	476
To Wilhelm Graeber, November 13-20	481
To Friedrich Graeber, December 9. 1839 - February 5 1840	487
1840
To Levin Schucking, June 18	494
To Levin Schucking, July 2	496
To Marie Engels, July 7-9	498
To Marie Engels, August 4	501
To Marie Engels, August 20-25	503
To Marie Engels, September 18-19	507
To Marie Engels, October 29	510
To Wilhelm Graeber, November 20	513
To Marie Engels, December 6-9	516
To Marie Engels, December 21-28	519
1841
To Marie Engels, February 18	523
To Friedrich Graeber, February 22	525
To Marie Engels, March 8-11	528
To Marie Engels, April 5	531
To Marie Engels, about the beginning of May	532
To Marie Engels, about the end of August	533
To Marie Engels, September 9	534
1842
To Marie Engels, January 5-6	536
To Marie Engels, April 14-16	539
To Marie Engels	542
To Arnold Ruge, June 15	543
To Marie Engels, July 2	544
To Arnold Ruge, July 26	545
To Marie Engels, August 2-8	546
Early Literary Experiments 1833-1837
To My Grandfather	553
Poem, 1836	554
Poem, probably written early in 1837	555
A Pirate Tale	557
The Single Combat of Eteocles and Polynices	572
Appendices
Birth Certificate of Friedrich Engels	577
Friedrich Engels Senior to Karl Snethlage, December 1, 1820	578
Baptism Certificate of Friedrich Engels	580
Friedrich Engels Senior to His Wife Elise, August 27, 1835	581
School-Leaving Reference for Prima Pupil Friedrich Engels	584
Friedrich Engels Senior to Karl Snethlage, October 5, 1842	586
Certificate of Conduct for the One-Year Volunteer Friedrich Engels	588
Notes & Indexes
Notes	591
Name Index	621
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	646
Index of Periodicals.	662
Illustrations
Frederick Engels in 1839	8-9
Pages 208 and 209 of the Gutenbergs-Album containing M. J. Quintana's poem A la invencion de la imprenta and Engels' translation	57
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet Schelling and Revelation	193
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet Schelling, Philosopher in Christ	245
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet The Insolently Threatened Yet Miraculously Rescued Bible	317
Engels' caricature of "The Free", the Berlin group of Young Hegelians	329
Frederick Engels in the 1840s	376-7
Facsimile of Engels' letter to Wilhelm Graeber of April 28-30, 1839	440-1
Facsimile of the beginning of Engels' letter to Marie Engels of December 9,1840	520-1
Facsimile of the end of Engels' letter to Marie Engels of December	520-1
Engels' mother and father	552-3
The house in Barmen where Engels was born	552-3
Cover of Engels' history exercise book	569
Drawing by Engels from his history exercise book	570
The gymnasium in Elberfeld where Engels studied	584-5

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