Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Harperperennial Classics)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780586090367 (0586090363)
ASIN: 0586090363
Publish date: 1993-09-13
Publisher: Paladin
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Fiction,
Historical
This is a book I’ve wanted to read for literally decades and it was well worth the wait. That I should have read it at this time seems to be no accident. There is much relevance for society today with all the draconian cuts and culture of austerity we are now facing, further impoverishing the poor a...
This book makes me feel like a bad leftie. I wanted to like it so much more than I did, and while parts of it are very powerful, the book is overlong, and treads the same ground so often that I had to force myself to finish it. When I started The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists I was full of enthus...
I'm not the full socialist required to fully appreciate the values outlined here but boy! this is a good eye-opening fable that shows another side of working life.
Log in with Facebook 
 by Robert Tressell, now listed on BookLikes)