Ebook {Epub PDF} Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea

 · Mrs. Engels: A Novel by Gavin McCrea | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook) $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ Audio MP3 on CD. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Available on Compatible . --The Minneapolis Star Tribune Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman and longtime lover of Frederick Engels, coauthor of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's debut novel, Lizzie is finally given a voice that won't be forgotten. Lizzie is a poor worker in the Manchester, England, mill that Frederick owns/5(6). Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea. $ Paperback - $ USD ePub - $ USD Kindle-compatible - $ USD. Order From. Find a local bookstore. An Amazon Top 20 Book of , the www.doorway.ru Featured Debut for October , and one of Amazon's Top Ten Best Books of the Month. Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction.

Gavin McCrea. Gavin McCrea was born in Dublin in His first novel, Mrs Engels (Scribe, ), was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Gavin's articles have appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Catapult, and LitHub. Mrs. Engels: A Novel - Kindle edition by McCrea, Gavin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mrs. Engels: A Novel. Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, she is finally given a voice - one that won't easily be forgotten. Lizzie is a worker in the Manchester, England.

--The Minneapolis Star Tribune Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman and longtime lover of Frederick Engels, coauthor of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's debut novel, Lizzie is finally given a voice that won't be forgotten. Lizzie is a poor worker in the Manchester, England, mill that Frederick owns. Gavin McCrea was born in Dublin in and currently lives in London and northern Spain. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of East Anglia. Mrs. Engels is his first novel. Here is a story that reclaims a shadowy presence on the margins of history - Lizzie Burns, aka Mrs Engels. Gavin McCrea's book achieves the almost impossible as it effortlessly weaves into a coherent tale the turbulence of Fenianism, the birth of Marxism, the crisis of the Paris Commune, London living in the 19th Century, and Engels' industrialist background, not to mention the interwoven relationships in the home lives of both the Engels and Marx households.