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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Author - Robert Tressell, aka Robert Noonan, aka Robert Croker, born in 1870 and died in 1911 (at age 41), is an Irish writer. He has lived in Ireland, England and South Africa.This author is famous for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, published in 1914 posthumously.This work was written as an autobiography and especially after his experiences in the world of work.He was a politician and a trade unionist. He has had painful job experiences.Fiction - The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was published posthumously in 1914, England.This writing is a semi-biographical novel by the Irish writer Robert Tressell.This work is a description of the world of work and explicitly the polit...
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Socialist Frank Owen believes that the capitalist system is the source of the poverty engulfing those around him. His co-workers can't even rely on their own thoughts and bow to their "betters". Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering. A political work, it is regarded as a classic of working-class literature and placed in the 2003 The Big Read survey conducted by the BBC.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and children of the working classes, and through its emblematic characters, argues for a socialist politics as the only hope for a civilized and humane life for all. It is a timeless work whose political message is as relevant today as it was in Tressell's time. For this it has long been honoured by the Trade Union movement and thinkers across the political spectrum.
Revisiting Robert Tressell's Mugsborough
Robert Noonan, whose pseudonym was Robert Tressell, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1870, and died in Liverpool, England, in 1911. During his short life, he lived in three countries, Ireland, South Africa, and England, and was involved in and exposed to a range of progressive issues such as Irish nationalism, Boer nationalism, socialism, anti-imperialism, the co-operative movement, and the women's suffrage campaign. He endured the poverty of a painter and sign-writer's wages, struggled to convert his fellow workers to socialism, experienced an acrimonious and ultimately secret divorce in South Africa, raised a daughter on his own, dreamed of a better life in Canada, and wrote a novel. The Ra...
Tressell
"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.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the lives of a group of housepainters is vividly adapted by Brenton.
Forever Young
An intimate portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., from his closest friend with 16 pages of color photos From the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father’s casket to his tragic death at age thirty- eight, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was never far from the public eye. Now the friend who John was flying to see the night he died reveals the private man behind the public myth. Billy and John shared summers in Hyannisport and formed a bond in the Kennedy compound that lasted well into adulthood. With Forever Young, Noonan offers a unique glimpse into the private life of his boyhood friend—his courtship with Carolyn, his relationship with his mother, Jackie, and his struggle with being the son of a great man he hardly remembered. Affectionate yet candid, Noonan’s deeply personal memoir ultimately emerges as the definitive portrait of the son of Camelot.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
"First published by Lawrence & Wishart, London 1955"--T.p. verso.
