Advantages: Historically relevent, touching, darkly humourous at times Disadvantages: Often overlooked as a 'political text'
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was written by Robert Tressell and published posthumously by his daughter Kathleen. Tressell was a house painter in the early 1900s and the novel is set in the fictional town of Mugsborough, based on the town of Hastin ...
Advantages: A must for socialists and non socialists alike Disadvantages: Makes you think a lot, may change your social views!!
...'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' was written by Robert Tressell in 1910 ,but wasn't published until 1914 after his death in 1911. Robert Tressell's real name was Robert Noonan, he was born in Dublin in 1870, the illigitable son of a senior mem ...
Advantages: Essential Reading. Full stop. Disadvantages: Could be edited a little to reach state of perfection
...I honestly can't believe that I have the priviledge of being the first person to review this seminal novel from Robert Tressel. It is a novel that has certainly had a profound upon my own world view and has since affected many of my friends consequent to ...
Advantages: Inspiring Disadvantages: none that i can think of
I wish i had been the first but I can't believe that there's only one person ahead of me! I have heard that this book has inspired politicians and activists for generations. I can only suggest that some need to read it again! I won't rewrite the last ...
Not only am I a bit of a literary geek, favouring the greats over contemproary authors, but I also love to buy books based on their appearance. There wasn't anything stopping me from spending less money on the works of Shakespeare, however I didn't exactl ...
