The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. An Imperial Banquet. A Philosophical Discussion. The Mysterious Stranger. Britons Never shall be Slaves
- Chapter 2. Nimrod: a Mighty Hunter before the Lord
- Chapter 3. The Financiers
- Chapter 4. The Placard
- Chapter 5. The Clock-case
- Chapter 6. It is not My Crime
- 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. Facing the “Problem”
- Chapter 36. The O.B.S.
- Chapter 37. A Brilliant Epigram
- 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. The Good Old Summer-time
- Chapter 44. The Beano
- Chapter 45. The Great Oration
- Chapter 46. The “Sixty-five”
- Chapter 47. The Ghouls
- 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