Tressell's novel is about survival on the underside of the Edwardian Twilight, about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse, and grave ...

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under ...

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a novel by Robert Tressell first published in 1914 after his death in 1911. A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged ...

Reproduction of the original: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell