Capital, Volume I, by Karl Marx (1867) — capital

This version of Capital was taken from the Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org), which was based on the first English edition (1887), translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels.

Usage

capital_vol1

Format

A data frame, containing four columns:

section: Section of book, one of: "toc" (Table of Contents), "body" (main text), "footnotes" (footnotes), "credits" (list of transcribers and HTML markup contributors)
part: Part of text; the main text is divided into 8 parts
chapter: Chapter of text: the main text is divided into 33 chapters
text: Text, usually about one paragraph or footnote per row. (This depends on how the HTML markup was done.)

Source

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Details

The text is stored as a data frame with four columns. The main text is included in the "body" section, but don't skip the footnotes on a read, they're a lot of fun. Note that the footnote numbering re-starts at the beginning of each chapter.