[PDF] The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists By Robert Tressell eBook

Author : David Harker
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781842773857

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"Tressell: The Real Story of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' describes the author's life, puts the book in its historical context and traces its success over the past ninety-odd years. It shows that The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is about socialist values and their continued relevance at a time when we are being told that capitalism is here for ever; that greed is good; that war, famine, poverty, racism and oppression are natural, normal and permanent features of life on Planet Earth. Crucially, Tressell's passionate, compassionate denunciation of the capitalist 'system' is about hope, so little wonder The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is selling very well indeed in these anti-capitalist days."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert Tressell
Publisher : Paperbackshop.CompanyUK Limited - Echo Library
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Tressell's novel is about survival on the underside of the Edwardian Twilight, about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse, and grave. Following the fortunes of a group of painters and decorators and their families, and the attempts to rouse their politicalwill by the Socialist visionary Frank Owen, the book is both a highly entertaining story and a passionate appeal for a fairer way of life. It asks questions that are still being asked today: why do your wages bear no relation to the value of your work? Why do fat cats get richer when you don't?Tressell's answers are "The Great Money Trick" and the "philanthropy" of an unenlightened workforce, who give away their rights and aspirations to a decent life so freely.Intellectually enlightening, deeply moving and gloriously funny (complete with exploding clergyman), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book that changes lives.

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Verso
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780860917724

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Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams’s reflections on the rise of English studies, on their crisis as the literary traditions of Cambridge University were beset by the ‘structuralist controversy’, and on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.

Author : Sophie Rickard
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780995794306

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"How much chaos can one dog attract? In a whirlwind of debt, accusations and failed expectations, Terry Mann finds out who his real friends are. Join Terry and his unsuitable dog Eric in this compelling adventure: even the vet won’t want to put it down! This full colour graphic novel is funny and sad, tragic and triumphant by turns. Welcome to the fictional town of Oldroyd, where the lives of ordinary people play out a heartwarming story of family, friendship and fear of failure." -- publisher's website.

Author : Sophie Overett
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913547574

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'Immensely captivating and original’ The Guardian 'A poetically written domestic drama with a wonderful magical-realist twist' Daily Mail How do you make sense of the loss of those you love the most? Delia Rabbit is already struggling to juggle three wayward children, a damaged relationship with her mother and an ill-advised affair with one of her students. Then her sixteen-year-old son Charlie vanishes in the middle of a blistering Brisbane heatwave. The family reels from the loss, as twenty-year-old Olive descends into hedonism and eleven-year-old Benjamin clings ever tighter to his superhero obsession. However, Charlie’s disappearance is stranger than it seems. And while his family search desperately for him, he may be closer than they think . . . A multigenerational tale of motherhood, grief and the tribulations of adolescence, The Rabbits weaves a thread of magic into a classic family drama novel.

Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982174153

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A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.

Author : Robert Tressell
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493724420

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