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I highly recommend this book: Socialist Thought: A Documentary History.
You can go on further after and read the primary sources they discuss.
This lecture by Prof Wolff is good too.
Pre-Marx?
I don't know, but Albert Fried and Ronald Sanders, ed., Socialist Thought: A Documentary History discusses, and has excerpts from, these pre-Marx authors:
Early French Communism
Utopian Socialism
The Emergence of the Proletariat
Early German Socialism
After that, there's a chapter on Marx/Engels, and then comes
Anarchism: Bakunin, Kropotkin, Sorel (syndicalism), Cole (guild socialism),
Revisionism: Lassalle, Webb (Fabian socialism), Jaurès, Millerand, Bernstein, Kautsky,
Bolshevism: Plekhanov, Lenin, Kautsky (again), Trotsky, Stalin,
Contemporary Socialism: Gramsci, Crosland,
Newer Currents in Socialist Thought: Gorz, Eisenstein, West, Amin.
But those aren't pre-Marx, and this took me way more time than I expected :)
Some of these text can be downloaded as audiobooks here (1492-1789), here (1789-1865) or here (1865-).
Socialist Thought: A Documented History might be suitable for your purpose.