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The origin of the family, private property, and the state

by Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

20 chapters, about 61,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 900 words
2. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1884. 700 words
3. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION, 1891. 4,400 words
4. PREHISTORIC STAGES. 200 words
5. I. SAVAGERY. 600 words
6. II. BARBARISM. 1,400 words
7. THE FAMILY. 2,600 words
8. 1. THE CONSANGUINE FAMILY. 200 words
9. 2. THE PUNALUAN FAMILY. 2,800 words
10. 3. THE PAIRING FAMILY. 5,400 words
11. 4. THE MONOGAMOUS FAMILY. 7,700 words
12. FOOTNOTES: 1,200 words
13. THE IROQUOIS GENS. 5,400 words
14. THE GRECIAN GENS. 3,200 words
15. ORIGIN OF THE ATTIC STATE. 4,100 words
16. GENS AND STATE IN ROME. 3,800 words
17. THE GENS AMONG CELTS AND GERMANS. 4,800 words
18. FOOTNOTES: 200 words
19. THE RISE OF THE STATE AMONG GERMANS. 4,200 words
20. BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION. 7,200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Civilization
• Eros (concept)
• Family
• Greeks
• Ionians
• Property
• Prostitution
• Suffrage
• Tacitus

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