VOCABULARY stay - pobyt to mark - oznaczać blue plaque - niebieska tablica (pamiątkowa) hardship - bieda, ciężkie czasy to survive - przeżyć almost solely - prawie wyłącznie allowance - zapomoga, zasiłek, pieniądze na wydatki bieżące to provide - dostarczać to earn - zarabiać foreign correspondent - korespondent zagraniczny newspaper - gazeta to die - umrzeć proper burial - należyty pochówek he was obliged to borrow money - zmuszony był pożyczyć pieniądze tiny - maluteńki coffin - trumna to inherit - otrzymać w spadku to be able - móc, być w stanie to move out - wyprowadzić się to move into - wprowadzić się slightly better - nieco lepszy accommodation - mieszkanie to be buried - być pochowanym cemetery - cmentarz north - północ, północny well-known - dobrze znany

Lesson 26
Karl Marx

His stay in the house in Dean Street in Soho, now marked by a blue plaque, was a time of great hardship for Marx and his family.

He was surviving almost solely on an allowance provided by Engels and on the small sums of money he earned as the foreign correspondent for a newspaper in New York.

Three of his six children died during the time in Soho and, in order to provide one of them with a proper burial, Marx was even obliged to borrow money for a tiny coffin.

Only when Marx's wife Jenny inherited ?120 from her mother was the family able to move out of Soho and into slightly better accommodation in Kentish Town.

Marx died on March 14th 1883 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London. The blue plaque in Dean Street is above the well-known restaurant Quo Vadis.

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