Robert Tressell was an Irish-born house-painter and decorator who worked along the southern coast of England, dying of tuberculois at the age of 40. He was buried in a pauper's grave, with a dozen other men buried in the same plot.
Tressell also wrote the greatest socialist novel ever published (published posthumously), The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. George Galloway and Professor Alan Taylor discuss the book and Tressell's life.
Grab the novel here. Then throw Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the garbage.
