The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Perfect Library) - Softcover

Tressell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1512159972 ISBN 13: 9781512159974

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" from Robert Tressell. Robert Tressell, pen name of Irish writer Robert Croker (1870-1911).

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Review:

The first great English novel about the class war, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is spiked, witty, humorous, instructive and full of excitement, harmony and pathos. Alan Sillitoe

Some books seem to batter their way to immortality against all the odds, by sheer brute artistic strength, and high up in this curious and honourable company must be counted The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressell s unfailing humour mixes with an unfailing rage and the two together make a truly Swiftian impact. Evening Standard

Robert Tressell has complete familiarity with the idiom of his characters. His language is bizarre, vital, highly inventive and precisely heard it is a complete and living archaeology of the speech of a particular human group. A brilliant and very funny book. Spectator

--Alan Sillitoe

Book Description:

Groundbreaking socialist novel and cult classic first published in 1914

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1512159972
• ISBN 13: 9781512159974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: The Perfect Library