Paine, Thomas 1737-1809

Common sense by Thomas Paine ( Book )
656 editions published between 1776 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 3,885 libraries worldwide
After Thomas Paine arrived in America, from England, in 1774 he put into words what every one of his countrymen was thinking but none dared say "Independence from England."

Rights of man by Thomas Paine ( Book )
662 editions published between 1791 and 2012 in 10 languages and held by 3,684 libraries worldwide
The complete text of Thomas Paine's landmark work The Rights of Man which was written in response to a work by Edmund Burke.

Collected writings : Common sense, the crisis, and other pamphlets, articles, and letters ; Rights of man ; The age of reason by Thomas Paine ( Book )
16 editions published between 1956 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,269 libraries worldwide
"I know not whether any man in the world", wrote John Adams in 1805, "has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine". The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and "common sense". This is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Emphasizing Paine's American career, it brings together his best-known works - Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason - along with scores of letters, articles, and pamphlets. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England. Within 14 months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution and began a career that would see him prosecuted in England, imprisoned and nearly executed in France, and hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create. In Common Sense Paine set forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during "the times that try men's souls" in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. Among the many other items included in the volume are the combative "Forester" letters, written in reply to a Tory critic of Common Sense, and several pieces concerning the French Revolution, including an incisiveargument against executing Louis XVI.

The age of reason by Thomas Paine ( Book )
409 editions published between 1792 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 2,063 libraries worldwide
The biography of Thomas Paine, 1737-1809 and translation of his "Age of reason" and its interpretation.

Common sense, and other political writings by Thomas Paine ( Book )
23 editions published between 1953 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 1,166 libraries worldwide

The selected work of Tom Paine & Citizen Tom Paine by Thomas Paine ( Book )
10 editions published between 1945 and 1946 in English and held by 1,069 libraries worldwide

The complete writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine ( Book )
24 editions published between 1945 and 1974 in English and held by 949 libraries worldwide

The writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine ( Book )
86 editions published between 1792 and 2010 in English and held by 921 libraries worldwide

Thomas Paine; representative selections by Thomas Paine ( Book )
18 editions published between 1944 and 1967 in English and held by 892 libraries worldwide

The American crisis by Thomas Paine ( Book )
26 editions published between 1777 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 812 libraries worldwide
Thomas Paine wrote the American Crisis in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the moral of the Continental Army.