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Title: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Author: Robert Tressell
Posting Date: April 22, 2009 [EBook #3608]
Release Date: January, 2003
First Posted: June 13, 2001
Language: English
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by
Robert Tressell
CONTENTS
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'
53 Barrington Finds a Situation
54 The End
Preface
In writing this book my intention was to present, in the form of an
interest
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