The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressell

      Harper Perennial Modern Classics

      The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

      Robert Tressell

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Introduction

Introduction

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

       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

       37 A Brilliant Epigram

       38 The Brigands’ Cave

       39 The Brigands at Work

       40 Vive la System!

       41 The Easter Offering. The Beano Meeting

       42 June

       43 The Good Old Summer-time

       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’