Robert Tressell

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

(1914)

Robert Tressel, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Grant Richards Ltd., London 1914.
Unabridged edition published by Lawrence & Wishart, London 1955.
Transcribed and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

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 O.B.S.

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’

53. Barrington Finds a Situation

54. The End

Appendix: Mugsborough

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