The Thomas Paine Reader,9780140444964

The Thomas Paine Reader

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140444964
ISBN10: 0140444963
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-12-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's major works including The Rights of Man, his groundbreaking defence of the revolutionary cause in France, Common Sense, which won thousands over to the side of the American rebels, and the first part of The Age of Reason (Part One), a ferocious attack on Christianity. The shorter pieces - on capital punishment, social reform and the abolition of slavery - also confirm the great versatility and power of this master of democratic prose.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction: The Life, Ideology and Legacy of Thomas Paine 7(32)
PAINE'S WRITINGS
The Case of The Officers of Excise (1772)
39(13)
African Slavery in America (1775)
52(5)
Reflections on the Life and Death of Lord Clive (1775)
57(6)
Liberty Tree (1775)
63(2)
Common Sense (1776)
65(51)
The American Crisis (1776--83)
116(8)
Public Good (1780)
124(15)
Six Letters to Rhode Island (1782--3)
139(8)
Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782)
147(20)
Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money (1786)
167(34)
The Rights of Man (1791--2)
201(164)
Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (1792)
365(22)
An Essay for the Use of New Republicans in their Opposition to Monarchy (1792)
387(7)
Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet (1793)
394(5)
The age of Reason, Part One (1794)
399(53)
Dissertation on First Principles of Government (1795)
452(19)
Agrarian Justice (1795)
471(19)
Letter to George Washington (1795)
490(13)
To the Citizens of the United States (1802--3)
503(15)
The Construction of Iron Bridges (1803)
518(7)
Constitutional Reform (1805)
525

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