"What I actually lent him was The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. This is the one work of genius which Socialism has…"

"There is the most remarkable of all books about working-class life, Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthro…"

"This novel ought to be read by all social reformers, and even more so by those who cannot be so classed."

"Tressell's artful depiction of the sheer physical privation and terror of what it is like to work too long, too hard,…"

"I'm reading Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for the umpteenth time. And not just because I am …"

"Almost the last book he Hubert Parry] read, in August 1918, was The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tress…"

"The secret of the book's endurance is its art and truth. Noonan was a master of working men's speech. Writing about h…"

"The best British working-class novel, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists."

"I fear that if I say what I think it may appear extravagant; while if I moderate my words I shall feel that I am doin…"

"What we call civilisation—the accumulation of knowledge which has come down to us from our forefathers—is the fruit o…"