The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Name: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Author: Tressell, Robert, 1870-1911

Tressell, Robert, 1870-1911

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PrefaceSample
Chapter 1. An Imperial Banquet. A Philosophical Discussion. The Mysterious Stranger. Britons Never shall be Slaves
Chapter 2.
FUNERALS FURNISHED
Chapter 3.
QUALITY STREET, MUGSBOROUGH
Chapter 4.
DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
Chapter 5. The Clock-case
Chapter 6.
TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
Chapter 7. The Exterminating Machines
Chapter 8. The Cap on the Stairs
Chapter 9. Who is to Pay?
Chapter 10. The Long Hill
Chapter 11. Hands and Brains
Chapter 12. The Letting of the Room
Chapter 13. Penal Servitude and Death
Chapter 14. Three Children. The Wages of Intelligence
Chapter 15. The Undeserving Persons and the Upper and Nether Millstones
Chapter 16. True Freedom
Chapter 17. The Rev. John Starr
Chapter 18. The Lodger
Chapter 19. The Filling of the Tank
Chapter 20. The Forty Thieves. The Battle: Brigands versus Bandits
Chapter 21. The Reign of Terror. The Great Money Trick
Chapter 22. The Phrenologist
Chapter 23. The “Open-air”
Chapter 24. Ruth
Chapter 25. The Oblong
Chapter 26. The Slaughter
Chapter 27. The March of the Imperialists
Chapter 28. The Week before Christmas
Chapter 29. The Pandorama
Chapter 30. The Brigands hold a Council of War
Chapter 31. The Deserter
Chapter 32. The Veteran
Chapter 33. The Soldier’s Children
Chapter 34. The Beginning of the End
Chapter 35.
JUMBLE SALE
Chapter 36.
HELPING THE NEEDY
Chapter 37.
GREAT SPEECH BY SIR GRABALL D'ENCLOSELAND
Chapter 38. The Brigands’ Cave
Chapter 39. The Brigands at Work
Chapter 40. Vive la System!
Chapter 41. The Easter Offering. The Beano Meeting
Chapter 42. June
Chapter 43.
IN THE EMPLOY OF
Chapter 44. The Beano
Chapter 45.
HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT WORK
Chapter 46. The “Sixty-five”
Chapter 47.
JOSEPH PHILPOT
Chapter 48. The Wise men of the East
Chapter 49. The Undesired
Chapter 50. Sundered
Chapter 51. The Widow’s Son
Chapter 52. “It’s a Far, Far Better Thing that I do, than I have Ever Done”
Chapter 53. Barrington Finds a Situation
Chapter 54. The End
Appendix