Well, Robert Tressell (real name Noonan), we are still waiting. The final sentence of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is not the only line from the socialist polemic that can seem at best ironic ...
TODAY marks the 104th anniversary of the death of Robert Tressell, writer of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. The fact that the book is still acutely relevant a century or so after its first ...