The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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4.8
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591
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a novel by Robert Tressell first published in 1914 after his death in 1911. An explicitly political work, it is widely regarded as a classic of working-class literature.

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4.8
25 reviews
Mary SIRCY
July 20, 2016
Not sure you want to be a socialist? Not sure it will fit? Test drive the cause and effect of what is and what could be. Find your fate in this book, decide how you got here, and why you stay. Written more than 100 years ago, it's a story about now.
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Alan Squire
April 29, 2015
After this ,100 plus years later ,when will people wake up to the Didlums and Sweaters of today's world.
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Traci Skinner
January 5, 2018
Sickening how relevant this is a hundred years later😕 brilliant book, should be on the national curriculum
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