A review by guinness74
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

2.0

For want of an editor, this book might have been a lot better...and a lot shorter. I subscribe to the Socialist theory of life; I've never made bones about that. Consequently, I enjoy reading works that cater to that theory. This particular tome is one that espouses Socialism in a similar manner to Bellamy's "Looking Backward." However, chapter after chapter is the same story again and again, and the fiction doesn't hold up as well as the cause that it purports to edify. It's a good story, and one I think would do a lot of good if people were to clear their minds and understand how things would work...but maybe leave out 10-20 of the 53 chapters and you'd be better off. Anyway, it's an okay book, but it's just too darn long for what it has to say.