The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798634547039)

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-biographical novel by the Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a house painter's efforts to find work in the fictional English town of Mugsborough (based on the coastal town of Hastings) to stave off the workhouse for himself, his wife and his son. The original title page, drawn by Tressell, carried the subtitle: "Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned, and written down by Robert Tressell.

Author: Robert Tressell
ISBN-10: 8634547035
ISBN-13: 9798634547039
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2020
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.03d