Reading Engels: where to start?

[Ptolemy]

As documented on other threads, I've begun delving properly into the works of Marx. Capital, the Manifesto, Brumaire; I've been enjoying them all.

What about Engels though? I'm not familiar with his solo work. Where should I start, and how does he differ from Marx in his outlook and approach (if at all)?

 

[belboid]

Critique of the Erfurt Programme is a nice quick way in. His attack on the vulgar Marxism of Kautsky (or arguable Bernstein). He's more pedantic than anyone on Urban by a mile.

Then Socialism: Utopian & Scientific - the critique of utopianism and defense of historical materialism is still highly relevant.

Followed by The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - because, well, it's tThe origin of the family, private property and the state.

And then The Condition of the Working Class in England - because it is a magnificent work of early sociology.

I'd be less fussed about the Dialectics of Nature and Anti-Duhring, as other than the bits reprinted in S:U&S, it's his mosted highly disputed work, though maybe more interesting because of that.

Must admit, I haven't read Anti-Duhring, and now think I should as it appears I have done every other major solo work of his.

 

[WouldBe]

I find it's best to start at the first page.