Tressell
Subtitle: The Real Story of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: December 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781842773857
Subjects: Biography: general; Charities & voluntary services; Marxism & Communism; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Ragged trousered philanthropis; Literary Criticism; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Tressell, Robert,; Political Science; Plays / Drama; English; British Isles; Novelists, English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Political Science / Communism & Socialism; 19th century; Socialists; Working class in literature; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; 1870-1911; Biography; Great Britain
First sentence: The author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, the classic English working-class novel, was not born in England, or into the working class, but he often tried to put people off the scent.