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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

A sustained attack on selfish capitalism, and a Socialist critique of Edwardian England`s social inequality, Robert Tressell`s `The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists` includes an introduction by Tristram Hunt in Penguin Modern Classics. `The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists` tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Frank Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Indicting the `philanthropy` of the working class, who toil solely for the benefit of their masters, and initiating them into the secrets of the `Great Money Trick` which alienates them from their labour, Owen`s spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written. Robert Noonan (1870-1911) who took the pseudonym `Tressell` from the `trestle table` of the sort used by decorators, was an Irish housepainter who came to England from South Africa in 1900. He settled in Hastings, where he worked as a signwriter for various building firms. Tressell never lived to see his book in print; he died of tuberculosis in 1911, aged forty.

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