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Robert Tressell. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressell
Table of Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Introduction
Introduction. Life
Class, Revolution and Resistance
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as Literature
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the English Novel Tradition
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Modernism
Conclusion
Preface
1 An Imperial Banquet. A Philosophical Discussion. The Mysterious Stranger. Britons Never shall be Slaves
2 Nimrod: a Mighty Hunter before the Lord
3 The Financiers
4 The Placard
5 The Clock-case
6 It is not My Crime
7 The Exterminating Machines
8 The Cap on the Stairs
9 Who is to Pay?
10 The Long Hill
11 Hands and Brains
12 The Letting of the Room
13 Penal Servitude and Death
14 Three Children. The Wages of Intelligence
15 The Undeserving Persons and the Upper and Nether Millstones
16 True Freedom
17 The Rev. John Starr
18 The Lodger
19 The Filling of the Tank
20 The Forty Thieves. The Battle: Brigands versus Bandits
21 The Reign of Terror. The Great Money Trick
22 The Phrenologist
23 The ‘Open-air’
24 Ruth
25 The Oblong
PROVE YOUR PRINCIPLES: OR, LOOK AT BOTH SIDES
26 The Slaughter
27 The March of the Imperialists
28 The Week before Christmas
29 The Pandorama
30 The Brigands hold a Council of War
31 The Deserter
32 The Veteran
33 The Soldier’s Children
34 The Beginning of the End
35 Facing the ‘Problem’
36 The OBS
HELPING THE NEEDY
37 A Brilliant Epigram
GREAT SPEECH BY SIR GRABALL D’ENCLOSELAND
38 The Brigands’ Cave
39 The Brigands at Work
40 Vive la System!
41 The Easter Offering. The Beano Meeting
CHURCH OF THE WHITED SEPULCHRE, MUGSBOROUGH
42 June
43 The Good Old Summer-time
WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
LOOK OUT FOR THE SOCIALIST VAN
44 The Beano
45 The Great Oration
46 The ‘Sixty-five’
47 The Ghouls
48 The Wise men of the East
49 The Undesired
50 Sundered
51 The Widow’s Son
52 ‘It’s a Far, Far Better Thing that I do, than I have Ever Done’
53 Barrington Finds a Situation
54 The End
Appendix Mugsborough
Select Bibliography. Books
Articles
P.S
Life and Times: A Chronology. 1870–86
1888
1891
1892
1894
1895
1897
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907–8
1909
1910
1911
1913
1914
Did You Know?
How The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Changed My Life
The Book’s Reception
What the Papers Said
Conclusions
The Full Monty: Recovering Tressell’s Manuscript
Adaptations
Websites
Recommended Criticism and Biography
About the Author. Robert Tressell
Copyright
About the Publisher
