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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Common Sense: And the American Crisis by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction
Common Sense is the book that created the modern United States. Thomas Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society liberated from the yoke of the crown. Published anonymously in 1776, six mont ...Show more
Common Sense and Selected Works of Thomas Paine (Word Cloud Classics) by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and this pen helped bring about the American Revolution. Thomas Paine is one of history's most renowned thinkers and was indispensible to both the American and French revolutions. The three works included, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, ar ...Show more
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction
Paineas daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes a"The Crisis," a a"The Age of Reason," a and a"Agrarian Justice."a
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine ...Show more
THE AGE OF REASON by PAINE THOMAS
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Value Editions Ser.
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1 ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction
The Age of Reason is one of the most influential defences of Deism (the idea that God can be known without organized religion) ever written.
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics | Series: Great Books in Philosophy Ser.
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible, the central text of Christianity. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1 ...Show more
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Penguin American Library
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics
The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflectio ...Show more
The Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction
Tom Paine is celebrated for the part he played in both the American and French Revolutions. Though an Englishman by birth, he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England and in favour of radical reform. So well thought of was he outside Great Britain that he became a dist ...Show more
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